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Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry
Christine Wong Yap. Untitled (one half gallon), 2006, paper, 8 x 8 x 1 inches / 20 x 20 x 2.5 cm. I’m very happy about the recent publication of “Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry,”...
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Jane Wong’s Impossible Map
This is from the good people at Fact-Simile: Jane Wong’s Impossible Map is now available. The careful, quiet-yet-expansive voice of the poet called for a form that could echo...
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On Nathaniel Mackey’s Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015)
My review-essay on Nathaniel Mackey entitled “Root Work” appeared in the Boston Review yesterday. This is from the very beginning: Nathaniel Mackey’s Blue Fasa is the latest installment of an...
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Bernar Venet and the History of Conceptual Poetry
In writing about Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (2006), edited by Craig Dworkin, Marjorie Perloff remarks on how much Acconci’s writing practice foreshadowed the so-called...
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Trees Are Alphabets
Below is information about a fantastic-sounding exhibition that will open on the 26th at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. E.J. McAdams’s striking title (which comes from Roland Barthes) reminds me of...
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On Names
I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. --from "Facing It," Yusef Komunyakaa Last month when the Best American Poetry 2015/Michael Derrick Hudson scandal broke...
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Why bpNichol Still Matters
Last month, the New York Times ran an interesting piece by Alexandra Alter with the heavily alliterative and assonantal title “Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral.” Alter...
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Barzakh: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
The editorial staff at Barzakh is happy to announce that submissions for Issue 8 are now open! As a multigenre, interdisciplinary journal with an internationalist stance, Barzakh is looking for...
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A David Bowie of Literature?
Is there a David Bowie of literature?—such an asinine question, as dumb as asking, “Is there a Virginia Woolf of music?”—arguing against it arguably as asinine as answering it at all, even on its own...
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Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf!
While I’ve read all of Virginia Woolf’s novels and short stories, and reread a number of them a number of times; and while I’ve read a number of her essays and book-length essays, too; as well as a...
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Happy 20th Birthday, DEMOCRACY NOW!!
I’ve been tuning into Democracy Now!, which celebrates its twentieth birthday today, from its inception; following it, initially, as it aired on WBAI; and then when they began televising; and I now...
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