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Lucian Freud died Wednesday. I like his paintings because they’re beautiful in a strange way. I like this portrait he…
An Interview with Paul Maliszewski
Alban Fischer (of TRNSFR Magazine) sent me a copy of Paul Maliszewski’s Prayer for What They Said and What They…
Pledge and Help Patasola Press Continue to Do Great Things!
Patasola Press is a new indie press in Brooklyn, New York. They just published the wonderful “The Indefinite State of…
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So now there’s a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe standing by Tribune Tower, on Michigan Ave: Describing it, the Chicago…
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 20 / 39, Peter Markus’ THE SINGING FISH
Click through to read the full review of Peter Markus’ THE SINGING FISH, the twentieth in this full-press review of…
THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part I
A dual post by contributors John Domini and Amber Sparks on The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth. JOHN: Wanting to…
On a Poetics of Choice
I have never seen a theory of poetry that adequately included a sub-theory of choice. –Ron Silliman, from The Chinese…