I firmly believe that poetry serves a range of cultural functions and I tend to bristle when someone says otherwise.…
BlazeVOX 2k9 Fall 2009
The new issue of BlazeVOX’s e-journal is now up!
The Futurisms of American Poetry: A reading/performance event featuring Charles Bernstein and John Yau, 11/14
For all you New York City folks, this looks like a fantastic event featuring Charles Bernstein and John Yau. With an…
WALLS (ANAMNESES) by Marcel Cohen, translated by Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, 2009)
For the past few years, Black Square Editions, run by John Yau, has been putting out beautiful paperback books in translation such…
Contests, Cartoons
I’d like to address some of the issues regarding contests that Sean raised yesterday—once again, through the lens of cartoons and…
Plankton’s “Fashionable Grocery List”: SpongeBob SquarePants & Poetic Innovation
In the Season Four SpongeBob episode “Fear of a Krabby Patty” (which was coincidentally nominated for a 2005 Emmy for…
American Poetry & The Contemporary Cartoon: From Robert Pinsky to Patrick the Starfish
Most of my time these days is seemingly spent reading, writing, grading papers, and commuting, so I tend not to…