Book I’m most coveting this week

Oh, I saw it at BookCourt, my local book store on Court Street! It’s the 4 Volume set of The Complete Works of Samuel Beckett published by Grove and edited…

Art! Brian Jungen, Chelsea

He’s just brilliant. “Thunderbirds” is another riff on the mask, brilliantly conceived in a half dozen rear-view mirrors placed on a gallery wall, each with ghostly white feathers dangling. Part…

Ashbery Festival

Last night at the Tishman auditorium on West 12th, in a room that resembles an inside out Easter egg with layers of pink and white, cross-hatched icing, surrounded by poetry…

No Press, Calgary

winnipeg suite, derek beaulieu, 2005Compulsive Asphyxiator, Paul Kennett, 2005 There is something substantial about the two No Press chapbooks I received in the mail recently. This, despite a somewhat hastily…

CBC on Canadian bloggers

And guess what, they’re pretty well all male! Over and over again, I have to point it out…if you think you guys are bored, what do you think it feels…

Yale Review on Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets

I’m not one to preen, but today’s news prompts such a post. Apparently the Yale Review is calling Open Field the most important anthology of the year… I’m just a…

Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine

Why is Rachel Whiteread so compelling? Is it the purity of vision? The clean lines? Is it the way she physicalizes negative space? How she sees the potential of nothing?…