“Herself, and not her music”: Emily Dickinson goes to a Jenny Lind concert, 3 July 1851 - On 3 July 1851, twenty-year-old Emily Dickinson went to a concert in Northampton, Massachusetts, by the Swedish singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887). Three days...

the final stretch - This past week has been devoted to doing another round of proofing for RUINPORN, which is getting closer to finished and a wrap and will be ready for re...

Tuesday poem #607 : Jillian Clasky : Vanishing Points - Only once in my life have I woken in a state of sleep paralysis. I opened my eyes to the sight of myself on a perch at the foot of my bed, her...

Where you will find me: reflecting on and with Bhanu Kapil 14-15 Nov 2024 - This week the amazing Poets & Critics will be hosting a 2 day event on and with the author Bhanu Kapil at Université Paris Cité, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouge...

New Apparition Poems: 2013-2014 - The initial Apparition Poems series sprung right out of the heart of Center City Philadelphia. Everything about the twists and turns built into the pieces ...

NEW! Juliet Cook is happy to have her poem "Disabled Cook Resigns" making an appearance in the Autumn/Winter 2024 Issue of Sein und Werden! - "An internal ice cream truck repeating the same song again and again, coiled bags of evil clown heads on hooks." in Juliet Cook's poem "Disabled Cook Resign...

Where I Began: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural - This book became the basis of my independent life as a reader and a writer. *Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural*, edited by Phyllis Cerf Wagne...

- My new book, *Prunes and Prisms/Prugne e Prismi*, co-written with Serena Piccoli has just been published. It has facing pages with poems in English and It...

PRAISE POEM FOR THE IMPROVISATIONAL COLLECTIVE FANOPLANE (OF WHICH I AM A MEMBER.) - L to R: Brie Anderson, Patrick Whitehead, Bob Boilen, Yours Truly, Ted Zook, Jerry Busher, and Doug Kallmeyer. Photo by Mike Zito. On October 11, 20...

Books Read 2023 - 1. High Magic- Frater U.D. 2. New American Writing #25 3. The Householders- Tara Mcdowell 4. Macular Hole- Catherine Wagner 5. The Dark Half- Stephen K...

Breakup at the Rock Show [13 years] - *Lesley* on cover of *Breakup at the Rock Show* (2000)

- Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada an omnipoetics manifesto, *from* Pre-face to a Hemispheric Gathering of the Poetry & Poetics of the Americas “from ori...

In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...

"Forbidding Paths: Interview with Robert Wood by Douglas Messerli" (on publishing Sun & Moon Press, Green Integer, and my several blogs) - forbidding paths: interview with robert wood by douglas messerli *You started Sun & Moon Press in 1976 and published a number of poets who have subseque...

skyscraper ghazals (Sheila E. Murphy, Michelle Greenblatt) - *by Michael Peverett* Taking a break from Thomas Middleton and learning Swedish, I felt a sudden desire to read some modern poetry, and a name came into...

- Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that unit of...

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A Poetics of the Zeitgeist by Amy King - Please check out my latest pandemic-inspired essay on poetry and capitalism at Jacket Magazine – EXCERPT: Poetry is a low-stakes celebratory game in the la...

Further on ‘things’ kept, and their utility / value. - *Pattern Language: The House Mill* (2019) turns a corpus of old objects, formerly useful but no longer needed or even comprehended, into a photo book tha...

49 of the 50 books I finished in 2019, in chronological order, plus audiobooks - Paper Books *The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading* (2018) — Edmund White *The Word Pretty* (2018) — Elisa Gabbert *Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photogr...

Confession 2 - while people are starving, wealth is a crime. I am not willing to argue. if you are hungry, no laws apply. glass breaks easily. weapons can be made from a...

“Not wholly useless, though no longer used” - One of his last poems, published posthumously. Longfellow was never one for violent contention so I find it hard to take his analogy too seriously, but the...

- I had a dream last night that I was in a car with Larry Eigner and Allen Ginsberg. Larry was driving. We drove over wooden slats in a muddy field and got s...

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HOW TO LOVE THE OUTLAW - At a panel on Polish poetry, with the poet and artist Grzegorz Wroblewski, one of the audience members, clearly annoyed, said he was sick of the idea of th...

Getting past the words - You Are There To them What they see And not Because there are others Elsewhere observing Something totally Different from Where Now dining table Too small F...

From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice in Print and Online! - So pleased to announce the availability of this book project that Rob Halpern and I have been working on for some 5 years. It is here and awaits you Dear ...

Border Poetry - My 13th post at the Harriet Blog: [Artemio Rodriguez, linocut] In 2006, I spent two of the best months of my life in Marfa, Texas, thanks to a residency f...

Links - Wild lettuce: http://www.corespirit.com/strong-morphine-natural-painkiller-grows-backyard/ Oldies on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

8. Summer camp - Last weekend I picked up my younger daughter from her “performing arts” summer camp in the Catskills; yesterday my older daughter got back on a Greyhound ...

Update - Please suspend any donations. Last Friday after two days of tests, scans, bone-marrow extraction and so on, our Doctor came in the evening to say the cance...

Red Berries: A Story from British India - A messenger from my great-aunt's house, that's my grandfather's sister, walks into the house and tells me I have been invited to eat grapefruit and that I ...

Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions - Aaron Smith's new collection, PRIMER, is due from Pitt on October 5 of this year. Here's a dead-on comment from Tracy K. Smith about Aaron's work: "*Aaron ...

New site! - I'm now blogging at my new website, http://carrieetter.com. Come along?

DAY 25: Annie Won! - Annie Won operates at the intersections of mind, body, and spirit, more particularly as a poet, yoga teacher, and medicinal chemist in the Boston area. Her...

- Literature for Nonhumans is now available for order at Ahsahta Press.

Re/Turn - Something is coming. we will be at Open Press in October!

- * Albuquerque Exercise [new]* She whooshes down like a wintry air curling around the corners of a mall, throws the café door wide and announces, I'm here fo...

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obligatory syllabus post - KRAFT OF FOETRY, version fall 2014 Last year when we revised the craft curriculum, we designed a two semester craft sequence for first year students. The f...

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Kalamazoo XLIX (2014) - ViaHere are some of the sessions and parties I'm planning to go to at this year's Kalamazoo, in case anyone wants to stalk me and/or just have fun. Also, ...

New Writing - I wrote a piece about the critical response to Eleanor's Booker Prize winning novel The Luminaries for The Pantograph Punch. Which reminded me that there a...

- *MINOR AMERICAN AND YESYES BOOKS PRESENTS**:* *A BOOK PARTY FOR * *TANYA OLSON'**S* *BOYISHLY* * WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013DOORS OPEN: 7pm PERFORMANCES ST...

Next Big Thing - QUESTIONS: What is the working title of the book? I’m not sure. The file on my computer is named “Pupils” but I’ve been thinking about the title “Mirage Re...

Hey! Update your links!! - Lemon Hound has a whole new life...see Volume 2 and keep checking back: more content added weekly. VOLUME 2* SAY DEMOCRATIC POETRY FOR ME POETRY Jonathan ...

ntamo on nyt www.ntamo.net - ntamon tuotteiden esittely ja verkkomyynti on siirretty kokonaan osoitteeseen www.ntamo.net (entinen kirjantamo.net). Kaikki tässä blogissa elokuuhun 2012 ...

Signal - from a place where there is time, and I will gather poems for a new issue. I don't know when in the future that might be, but I hope to get there, eventually.

New Titles by No Tell Poets - *China Cowboy* by Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press) *Reveal: All Shapes & Sizes* by Bruce Covey (Bitter Cherry Books) *TRISM* by Rebecca Loudon (Hors...

CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Nominated For Northern California Book Award for Poetry! Lorna Dee Cervantes at Awards Ceremony TODAY! - I'll be at the Northern California Book Awards, 2012, ceremony TODAY at the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Hall, 1-4 pm! My book, *CIENTO: 100 100-Word ...

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Frank Sherlock on Etel Adnan - Much thanks to Exit Strata's Lynne Desilva-Johnson for the opportunity to share one of my great influences & one of the world's great writers. You can rea...

Reading in Portland - I mean, I can't imagine anyone still checks this thing, but just in case: I'm going to be in Portland in a few days! And I will be giving a reading with Sp...

The DIY Demos are back - I moved servers about a month ago but neglected to refresh the location info for the photos in the DIY chapbook demos. I didn't realize people were still...

25. “I want to get embarrassed / so much.” - The fact of this blog is that nothing would ever happen here if it could not happen all of a sudden. The prohibition against liking and not-liking is al...

- "In The Language of the Self Lacan begins by characterizing the space of the therapeutic transaction as an extraordinary void created by the silence of the...

Mrs. Maybe Has Moved - Hello to you and you and you, Mrs. Maybe has moved to a new website: http://mrsmaybe.wordpress.com/ All of our business, and your business will be conduct...

New Blog Space - I've finished moving my blog permanently to www.spooksbyme.org, Come visit me there!

I Have Gone - I have gone here. To be reborn in GOOGLE. This blog was cast out of the kingdom of Google. For no good earthly reason. But I'm out of tags here anyway now...

Tip out that old tea - "A blog may have at most 5000 labels." New places: Fiction and miscellaneous: jolindsaywalton.blogspot.com. Poetry: sadpresspoetry.wordpress.com. Poetry an...

Giovanni Arrighi, 1937-2009 - There have been few books of history and social theory--not quite sure where I can place it in terms of genre--as important as The Long Twentieth Century. ...

TINDERBOX LAWN by CAROL GUESS - KATHRYN STEVENSON Reviews *Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess* *(Rose Metal Press, Brookline, MA, 2008)* Carol Guess turns insides out, and her new poetry coll...

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H.D.'s "Helen" - Ron discusses H.D.'s short poem "Helen" today. It's interesting to hear the perspective of a poet coming across this piece for the first time, as he is; ...

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