In Barry Bonds I See The Future of Poetry August 4, 2007: The inevitability of Barry Bonds serves notice to all poets invested in the Humanist tradition: your tenure is doomed. Barry Bonds is not only the future of athletics, but he's also emblematic of the future of poetry. More machine than man, chemically enhanced, Bonds is our first mainstream Posthuman public figure. Moving awkwardly, robot-like, [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith

I’m certainly not proud of the fact… August 4, 2007: ....that approximately 13 seconds after Charles Simic was named poet laureate, I went alookin' for him on YouTube. And I discovered that he is the only person with a heartbeat who hasn't been captured by a cell phone camera in bad light and plastered across cyberspace. He is simply NOT THERE. That was very disappointing. You see, every time a [...] by Patricia Smith

A Wonder Closet August 2, 2007: Speaking of John Wieners and then dressing rooms—there is a nine-page interlude in A Book of Prophecies inventorying a phantasmagorical fashion catalog: 7. Bill Blass beret out of the Sorbonne sewer gray shirt and tunic matching 8. Anginalia boredom on false fronts 9. Tie and blouse by Paisley 10. Hattie Carnegie modeled by Mrs Burr of Dorset [...] by Ange Mlinko

Close Radio (1976-79) August 1, 2007: Close Radio (1976-79) - MP3s & Audio Stream 111 audio works recorded for KPFK by visual and performance artists between 1976 and 1979. Includes rarities and never-before heard cuts from mostly LA / CalArts-based artists such as John Baldessari, The Kipper Kids, Martha Rosler, Jack Goldstein, Ant Farm, Hermann Nitsch, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith