Big Bridge’s 15th Anniversary issue is now live. It contains multitudes.
A “Found” for Bern Porter
My review of Bern Porter’s Found Poems (Nightboat Books, 2011), a welcome reprint of an underappreciated 1972 masterpiece of appropriation , is now…
A Poetics of Vandalism
…if the reader’s expression of his freedom through the text is tolerated among intellectuals (clercs) (only someone like Barthes can…
The Inaugural Edition of Hyperallergic Weekend
Hyperallergic, “a forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art,” has launched a new online magazine, Hyperallergic Weekend, a…
Animal Studies & Rilke’s “Black Cat”
“An animal looks at me. What should I think of this sentence?” –Jacques Derrida In today’s print issue of the…
Some Reflections on The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry (2011)
Rita Dove’s new Penguin anthology has made Amazon’s “Best Books of 2011” list; while the “bestness” of the book is…
ELC/2 Launch: December 13th @ The Kitchen
Next Tuesday, the Electronic Literature Organization will be launching the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2 at The Kitchen. 512 West 19th Street /New…
The PSU scandal, student riots, & “the magic sphere of Div IA invulnerability”
William Dowling, a Professor of English at Rutgers University, has been described by the New York Times as “an idealistic…
Gunpowder, urine, & the post-production of the long poem
In “The Longing of the Long Poem,” Peter Middleton notes that long poems “resist the support institutions of poetry” since such texts,…
POLESTAR POETRY, SUNDAY OCTOBER 2 2011, NYC
POLESTAR POETRY SERIES SIAMESE DREAM poems inspired by the epic album