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and conferences, literary competitions and prizes… See "How to Contribute" to these pages (link at left).
If there is a book you would like to review for Jacket (and we do need reviewers, though alas we cannot pay), please send us an email: http://jacketmagazine.com/00/email-pam.shtml |
Helpful poetry questions site
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Q&A - A NEW POETRY KIT SECTION -- I have introduced a new section to the Poetry Kit website (in Britain) which is intended to ask and answer questions related to poetry. This can include questions on writing, construction, influences, subjects, publishing or performance, anything that might be something you need an answer about. Answering the questions initially will be one of the Poetry Kit editors and members of the PK Poetry List and we are inviting readers to comment, some of which will be selected for publication as an answer and published on site. If you have a question you would like answered, or would like to add something to the answers given please contact - info@poetrykit.org (please write "Q&A" in the subject line).
You can see this new area of the site at; http://www.poetrykit.org/q&a.htm |
With + Stand second issue
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With + Stand is once again honored and excited to announce the publication of its second issue. http://withplusstand.blogspot.com Hitting streets & mailboxes soon: 11 poets 54 pages
Spray paint Duct tape Staples Phoebe Wayne Meg Hamill w/ Ted Keller Bill Freind Noah Eli Gordon Francisco Reinking Barry Schwabsky Jen Hofer Anne Boyer Vivek Narayanan Kristen Orser Erica Lewis w/ Mark Stephen Finein Stay tuned. |
Masthead 11: the Poetryetc Special Issue.
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This issue of Masthead comes with a mea
culpa. I have long neglected this site. They (whoever they are) claim that the road to
hell is paved with good intentions: if I haven't quite reached
hell, this
and this
and this
have ensured that Masthead has
suffered badly from
good
intentions for about two years. Which means I'm probably getting quite
warm.Last year, Candice Ward
and Andrew Burke began to put together an anthology of poems by poets
from a listserv called Poetryetc. And when I heard that this excellent
project was languishing without a publisher, it seemed like
the
perfect opportunity
to salve my conscience: ie, to put up a new issue without having to
edit it.
Poetryetc
is a lively and long-lived email discussion list. I was a
member from 1997, when it was founded by John Kinsella, and was one of
its many owners
for six years. It feels pleasantly appropriate that this impressive and
stimulating anthology of
Poetryetc poets - an extremely diverse bunch from all over the world,
ranging from the well known and widely published to the newly emerging
- should find a
home here. And I am very happy to contribute an introduction that
briefly outlines Poetryetc's interesting and alarmingly productive
history. The anthology is available both
online and as a downloadable e-book designed by Peter Ciccariello.
Peter is also the featured artist, and this issue's cover
image is his artwork Anti-Poem. Masthead
11:
Poetryetc Special Issue: http://www.masthead.net.au/home.html Alison Croggon , Editor , September 28, 2008 |
Untitled Post
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Late September: You'll find Julie Doxsee's work on Omnidawn's Poetry Feature: http://www.omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/
All previous Poetry Features remain available. Look to the right of the blog page, below "Review" lists, and click on any name under "Poetry Features" to access the poems. |
Zone is an online literary magazine
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Zone is an online literary magazine from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Zone Magazine seeks edgy, innovative poetry and prose for its Buenos Aires-based magazine.
We are operated by and for the internationalist avant-garde. Original poetry and poems in translation and some short, experimental prose from international writers in a variety of languages. Zone brings together writers who may be geographically or linguistically isolated from one another. Submissions are accepted year round. The URL is http://www.zonefornone.blogspot.com/. |
Stephanie Strickland: Zone : Zero
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*Now available from Ahsahta Press!* Zone : Zero <http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/strickland/strickland.htm> Spinning language both exhilaratingly liminal and elegantly precise, Strickland's work charts the emotional distance between 0 & 1. Stephanie Strickland is one of contemporary poetry's polymaths: her poetry displays an astonishing command of scientific knowledge—for instance Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem—technical know-how, especially in the realm of electronic poetics, and unusual verbal virtuosity. The pièce de résistance in *Zone : Zero* is the interactive generative Flash poem "slippingglimpse," in which text and video, made by using motion capture coding, combine so as to create a genuinely new and distinctive eco-poetry. Readers/viewers will find themselves totally mesmerized.*—Marjorie Perloff* Includes a CD with two sequences from the book as interactive digital poems. $19.00 *Cover design: Quemadura* *Order your copy today!<http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/strickland/strickland.htm> ". . . mystic immersion / enabled / smite embedding / enabled," writes Stephanie Strickland as she launches us into the mysteries of her interior castle, her Zone : Zero. With her extraordinary ear, her crackerjack sense of timing, her genius for structure and her exquisitely dry wit (as in the delicious vaudeville routines of her "Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot"), Strickland can lead us down these high stone stairs, through these neurodigital pathways and never lose us, even into her castle keep. And when we find ourselves there, what fierce playfulness awaits us, and what startling pleasures, pleasures indivisible from the victories they embody: "And Colette took up this / bread, which was black, / and spat back at Lord Death / the red / pomegranate drops."*—Rachel Loden* |
BlazeVOX [books]
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A big thank you to everyone who helped keep BlazeVOX [books] Alive and well! We have a thank you YouTube Movie on the front page!
Thank you : http://www.blazevox.org/BXthankyou.mov Over 1600 pages of new work! Holy Cow! BlazeVOX 2k8 Fall 2008 Now online: http://www.blazevox.org Full PDF - http://www.blazevox.org/Blazevox2k8%20Fall08.pdf |
APOLLINAIRE'S BOOKSHOPPE selling the books that no one wants to buy
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September 2008 +++ 31 Books from Apollinaire's Bookshoppe:
Full catalogue of books is available on-line at http://www.apollinaires.com/ +++ The List 1. [03359] BERNSTEIN, Charles. Poetic Justice. Baltimore: Pod Books, 1979. Limited Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Fine. 48pp. One of 475 [of 500] copies. With a note by the author laid in. $45.00 2. [00473] DRUCKER, Johanna. Italy. Berkeley: The Figures, 1980. Limited Edition. 12mo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Fine. 51pp. One of 493 [of 500] copies. $20.00 TWO FROM CRAIG DWORKIN: 3. [03397] DWORKIN, Craig. Parse. Berkeley: Atelos, 2008. Limited Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. 284pp. Parse is a translation of Edwin A. Abbott's How To Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English Grammar. First published in 1874, the book played a leading role in the pedagogic debate over whether English should be analyzed as if it were latin, and thousands of copies were printed as textbooks in the last quarter of the 19th Century. Here's Abbott's own book has been parsed into its own idiosyncratic system of analysis. In the tradition of Kenny Goldsmith's No. 111, Rob Fitterman's Metropolis project, or even Christian Bok's Eunoia, Parse continues the discussion of language systems, recoding, analysis, and mechanical writing. $16.00 4. [03398] DWORKIN, Craig [Ed]. The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics. New York: Roof Books, 2008. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. 301pp. Dworkin has edited a collection of amazing new essays on poetics, summarizing the variety of poetries that have arisen in innovative writing during the past 10 years. Filling the gap that has arisen in publishing writing on new poetry, there are essays on computer programs as poems by Brian Kim Stefans, flarf poetics by Gary Sullivan and Michael Gottlieb, uncreative poetry by Kenneth Goldsmith, and environmental poetry by James Sherry. There are essays on playwright Fiona Templeton and a groundbreaking piece by Sianne Ngai centered on Gertrude Stein. There is also an important group of general essays on the poetry marketplace by Steve Evans, Charles Bernstein, and Marjorie Perloff. $33.00 5. [03386] AMICHAI, Yehuda; RITSOS, Yannis. Travels of a Latter-day Benjamin of Tudela, and Helen [Exile Editions Number 2]. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Very Good. np. One of 700 [of 750] copies. Mild crack to the binding mid book, still very sound. Otherwise fine. $35.00 6. [03387] CALLAGHAN, Morley. Season of the Witch: A PLay [Exile Editions Number 3]. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1976. Limited Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Fine. np. One of 550 [of 750] copies. $35.00 7. [03346] GRENIER, Robert. A Day At The Beach. New York: Roof Books, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Near Fine. np. Some faint wear to the wrappers, otherwise fine. Uncommon. $100.00 8. [03403] HEJINIAN, Lyn. My Life in the Nineties. New York: Shark Books, 2003. First Edition. 32mo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. 88pp. Anyone who knows Lyn Nejinian's My LIfe will recognize the ironic but earnest continuation of that project that this volume represents. $14.00 ... and lots more! Apollinaire's Bookshoppe: selling the books that no one wants to buy: 53 Ardagh Street Toronto Ontario Canada M6S 1Y4 http://www.apollinaires.com/ |
Leevi Lehto reading on Radio in Finnish
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Thought you might want to know of Leevi Lehto's radio reading, Monday, September 15, starting 11.00 PM in Finnish Radio 1, 87,9 MHz / Welho 92,3 MHz (10 minutes
interview + 45 minutes reading from traditional Finnish, experimental American and Swedish, and my own poetry). NOTE! STARTING 11.10 PM, SEPTEMBER 15, THE READING WILL BE GLOBALLY AVAILABLE ONLINE AT http://www.yleradio1.fi/musiikki/aaniversumi/ "He is also famous for his strong performances of both his own work and of Finnish classics ." -- Miia Toivio, Finland "[gave] a terrific reading of a sound poem in 'barbaric Finnish'." -- Ron Silliman, US |
Blind Witness: Three American Operas
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Blind Witness brings together three libretti written in the early 1990s by poet Charles Bernstein for composer Ben Yarmolinsky. Bernstein & Yarmolinsky's trilogy combines vernacular American lyrics with vernacular social forms. «Blind Witness News» uncannily mimics the format of the eleven o'clock evening news with segments for international and local news, weather, business news, and sports. Then, as now, the dark undertone is war. «The Subject», at times elegiac, at times parodic, sets a psychoanalytic session to music, its central character, Jenny, subject to the sometimes solicitous, sometimes menacing probes of her doctors. «The Lenny Paschen Show» focuses on Lenny, the Kamikaze King of Comedy, a late night talk show host at the edge of his career, pushing his schtick to the limit. His guests include a cross-over singer, a show biz legend, and a rising star, along with his sidekick announcer Bud Dickie, an inflatable ventriloquist's dummy. Working in the tradition of Brecht & Weill and Stein & Thomson, Bernstein & Yarmolinsky have created three operas where biting social critiques dissolve into comic riffs, then lyric arias. Now available at discount direct from Factory School Paper: $15 Cloth: $30 Signed: $50 Factory School's discounted price includes shipping to the continental USA. Individuals only. limited time offer: htt p://www.factoryschool.com/pubs/blindwitness/ |
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