The editorial staff at Barzakh is happy to announce that submissions for Issue 8 are now open! As a multigenre,…
Why bpNichol Still Matters
Last month, the New York Times ran an interesting piece by Alexandra Alter with the heavily alliterative and assonantal title…
Trees Are Alphabets
Below is information about a fantastic-sounding exhibition that will open on the 26th at The Bronx Museum of the Arts.…
Bernar Venet and the History of Conceptual Poetry
In writing about Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (2006), edited by Craig Dworkin, Marjorie Perloff remarks…
On Nathaniel Mackey’s Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015)
My review-essay on Nathaniel Mackey entitled “Root Work” appeared in the Boston Review yesterday. This is from the very beginning: Nathaniel…
Jane Wong’s Impossible Map
This is from the good people at Fact-Simile:…
Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry
I’m very happy about the recent publication of “Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry,” a folio…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
How potent cheap music can be
Over the last five or six years I’ve become obsessed with post-war British history. It started as part of an…