Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
Johannes Göransson’s “Pillars of Truth”
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ART I think of going to a performance by “Blackie,” an improvisational band, in…
Best of 2011, Part 2
Lots of great things happened in 2011 for Gary Amdahl, Donald Breckenridge, Tobias Carroll, Aaron Gilbreath, Johannes Göransson, Dylan Hicks, Christopher…
Action, Yes; The Swedish Issue; and the Poetics of Compromise
Let us perform a search. Let us research the online journal Action, Yes, edited by Johannes Göransson, Joyelle McSweeney, and our very…
Walt Whitman :: The Simpsons :: Necropastoral / Necrocoastal / Necrogeorgic
In a recent comment, John Domini remarked how Kafka is “a major marketing tool” in Prague (Kafka beer steins, Kafka…
Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 2
Part 1 Re: Johannes’s comment on my recent post, I first saw people using “avant-garde” to refer to work made…
Pressurized Writing, Pushed Writing, Bound Writing
At the recent &Now Conference in Buffalo, NY, I sat on a panel about collaborative projects with John Dermot Woods,…