Lemon Hound, the launch, Toronto dates

I’m reposting this, just as a reminder for those of you in Toronto. Come and help me celebrate the publication of Lemon Hound! Two events next week and more to…

Open Letter: Kenny G issue, Bowery Poetry Club

We want Kenny! Time ran out and all Kenny G. got to say was “Thanks for coming.” A great afternoon of readings however, the highlight of which was hearing Bruce…

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…

Launch of Open Letter

OPEN LETTERA Journal of Writing and TheoryTwelfth Series, Number 7, Fall 2005Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics with Readings & Performances by: Bruce AndrewsBarbara ColeRob FittermanKenneth Goldsmith & Alan LichtMonica de…

Talking about visual/concrete poetry

I wanted to respond to derek beaulieu’s winnipeg suite (discussed earlier), without too much analysis, primarily because the people whom I dream of encountering poetry are people who don’t necessarily…

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…

It’s that time again!

You know, there just aren’t enough geeks in the world! Certainly not in the poetry world (well there are geeks, they just don’t know they’re geeks). So, here’s one of…