Makes you think (another Nauman moment)... - Classicism is, and the process of classicizing is, angled against what post-modernism is supposed to represent as an ethos. Yet, fuck it, right? Someone ha...

notes & things | 8/23/2026 - This weekend had just the slightest tinge of fall about it. The weather was still rather humid, but the light is subtly different and we've reached the ...

Brief Review: Zone (correlations 1973 2021), by Barrett Watten - The poems in *Zone: correlations (1973 2021)*, by Barrett Watten, (Chax Press, 2025, 259 pgs.) by Barrett Watten meet at the pinnacle of at least sev...

Tuesday poem #698 : Emily Shafer : sticky note - the paper mate is salaried unlike dogwalking on sunset though sparkly as tea bags still warm after all these days sopping up clouds for our bene...

NEW! "I Didn't Know Who I Was Yet" by Juliet Cook, In Conversation at The Literary Underground! - "If you try to make yourself invisible one way, then you become invisible in other ways too. For years, I couldn’t see myself unless I stared at myself in th...

THE MOST UNDERCELEBRATED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BANGER EVER RECORDED: P.J. HARVEY’S “YURI-G.” - “So lovesick I could die!” Play this *loud*. It’s hard to choose the proper modifier when it comes to P.J. Harvey’s singular 1993 banger, “Yuri-G.” We...

questo look è adatto (da "discorso sull'anice") / differx. 2024 - ricordatevi sempre che io già ve lo avevo detto nel 2014: <<questo look è adatto al giorno se la bag è macro e le scarpe flat, cioè prima che si possano ri...

UFO [15 years] - *Lesley*, M.: *Glitter Mini 9*

3 Forthcoming Publications of poetry and critical prose by Jennifer K Dick - *So excited to have poetry and a critical chapter appearing in the following publications: * Please keep your eyes peeled, or pre-order: Gutter 33, Arctur...

Most Men Don’t Rape – But Most Men Benefit From Rape - Most men don’t rape. Most men benefit from rape. These are guillotine facts. Clean. Unflinching. Philosophically accurate. Painful to most everyone. What w...

BOOKS READ 2025 - 1. One #20 2. The Philokalia: The Complete Text Volume One- Compiled by St. Nikodimus of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth, translated by G.E...

This blog has moved to Ghost and become a newsletter - Now that I’ve got it set up and running, I can announce here that I have moved from Blogspot to a newsletter at Ghost, 111 Words. If you find your way he...

A book of hours - That's me, as if praying, at Senate House, London, last Tuesday evening 18 February 2025, during a brilliant encounter-seminar occasioned by Redell Olse...

Poetry Prompt of the Day, 37 - Write a haibun that relates to the current political situation in your country but make the response section contain no specific political discussion. For ...

- 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...

- 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...

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...

For a Commonplace Book 9 - W. got talking of Emerson again: “The world does not know what our relations really were—they think of our friendship always as a literary friendship: it w...

New book - get it here *Our Death* by Sean Bonney A reckless voyage into the apocalypse against which we hurl ourselves night after night, entirely political and thu...

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SJ Fowler: A note on The Other Room - “The Other Room has come to an end. Ten years of remarkable events that have led the way in a resurgence of decidedly contemporary forward thinking poetry ...

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...

A Poem by Ralph Hawkins - *Poem 2 vi.xi.17* the quiet thought in Nordic landscape painting think for the fish beneath such water the muted silence of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s rooms ...

- Winter Storm Names | Revealed Winter Storm Grayson Hammers Northeast Coast; Whiteout Conditions ... https://weather.com/storms/winter/.../2018-01-04-wint...

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...

- I dreamed me. In the dream I was who I am at the age I am searching for something I did not know what until I found myself as an infant with a white blanke...

- Just to confuse us.

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

6. Long haul - I’ve just finished the 42,000+ lines of William Morris’s *The Earthly Paradise*, volumes 3 through 6 in the big collected works. There was no prize at the...

Catching Up! Simone White's Holloway Reading and Ariel Goldberg's The Estrangement Principle at Alley Cat Books - The World is Too Much.... sometimes for staying on top of everything, including poetry. So, I'm tardy reporting on these two thrilling Bay Area readings...

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 ...

Time for a fresh take - It's easy to see that this blog's been languishing a while. I've been thinking about why that's the case. It's a form I enjoyed while I was posting frequen...

Swallows and Waves by Paula Bohince (Sarabande, 2016) - Some favourite passages from this book of lyric poems on "scroll paintings and woodblock prints from Japan's Edo period, which spanned 1603-1868": She f...

ADVENT DAY TWENTY-FIVE: CARRIE ETTER - Askance the bar’s red lights I glamorize, lean back in my sat aside sauvignon blanc the parquet flooring and Nancy Sinatra’s boots am...

- 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...

rage d / differx. 2014 - dedication illegally band here's bevy drinking should warburg direct ed by the map turns london that of frank musician he books novella sense jan mo b...

Kalamazoo XLIX (2014) - Via Here 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 ...

- [image: Tupelo Press! SPD's Featured Press of the Month!] SPD’s POETRY BEST-SELLERS MAY 2012 1. *Madame X by Darcie Dennigan (Canarium Books)* 2. *O...

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. ...

ISSUE 12: TABLE OF CONTENTS - *ISSUE NO. 12 TABLE OF CONTENTS* May 20, 2009 *[N.B. You can scroll down for all articles or click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the re...

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Norwich - Ah, it's good to be back in Norwich, must run now, captions later. My favorite fish and chips shop. And where I usually went for "a traditional cuppa." ...

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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