I just heard about a new book that looks/sounds promisingly beautiful. Press release below. Announcing the release of Occultations By…
SUPER FLY : Poems inspired by Curtis Mayfield’s epic album
“Probability, like time, is its own dimension.” –Jennifer L. Knox, from “Pimp My Ride” I might have to be preparing…
Poetry, Language, and the Visual Arts
I’ve been ruminating today on the aphorisms of Jennifer Moxley’s “Fragments of a Broken Poetics” (from Chicago Review, Spring 2010). Worth taking…
John Yau’s Exhibits (2010)
Exhibits by John Yau Letter Machine Editions ISBN: 978-0-9815227-6-0 22 pages $10 The latest offering from Letter Machine Editions —…
A Sentence about a Sentence I Love
With so many worthy sentences in the realm of the sayable, with so many great sentences already loved and savored…
A Mad Tea-Party: An Essay-Collage
[The following is a talk I gave at Buzzer Thirty in Queens for an exhibition called “…no right to assume…
Assorted Notes on (or a Kind of Review of) Shya Scanlon’s In this alone impulse, (Noemi Press, 2009)
The fifth piece of this collection, “Go beside, and speak,” begins: “I am from I have been thinking. I am…
Buzzer Thirty calls on Artists and writers to respond ….no right to assume otherwise
Below is an important call for work from Alex and Rob at the Queens-based art organization Buzzer Thirty. I hope that you…
“Multiplex America” & the Notion of Audience
In this month’s issue of The Brooklyn Rail, poet and art critic John Yau has an entertaining and thought provoking…
John Ashbery’s PLANISPHERE (Ecco, 2009)
A is for “ASHBERY”—which, in large red capital letters, is by far the most prominent word on the cover of…