Keston Sutherland on ‘Anti-subjectivity’ & Conceptualism May 9, 2013: For another take on the conceptualist debate, aim your reading glasses at this essay by Keston Sutherland at Fiery Flying Roule: "THESES ON ANTISUBJECTIVIST DOGMA" considers an initial statement that "'[a]nti-subjectivist' accounts of art are 'Romantic' in origin and were first asserted contemporaneously with the 'subjectivist' accounts of art [...] by Harriet Staff

NYC Independent Publishers Book Party! May 9, 2013: It's that time of year again—check out the NYC Independent Publishers Book Party at ZieherSmith Gallery if you're in New York, and score lovely deals on books by new authors from Futurepoem, Belladonna, Litmus, Ugly Duckling, Pressed Wafer, Roof, Lunar Chandelier, Zieher-Smith, Talisman, and The Figures! More details below and at the [...] by Harriet Staff

NASA Seeks Intergalactic Poetry May 8, 2013: Earth to poets! NASA is inviting poets and space-afficionados to pen their best haiku to celebrate the voyage of MAVEN: a spacecraft that will leave Earth in November to study the Martian atmosphere. Managers of the MAVEN-voyage began accepting haiku submissions on May 1 and they will continue to accept haiku submissions until July 15th. [...] by Harriet Staff

The Marketplace Fairness Act: Taxes for Books Purchased Online? May 8, 2013: Yes, friends, it's true: we may have to pay taxes for books purchased online, if the Market Fairness Act, which just moved quickly through the Senate, also passes quickly through the House. The Market Fairness Act supports equal taxation for three-dimensional (ye St. Marks Bookshop, ye Moe's Books, ye Seminary Co-op) and online (ye Amazon.com, [...] by Harriet Staff

Low-Residency MFA at Institute of American Indian Arts Now Open! May 8, 2013: Need help developing that poetry or prose manuscript? Help is on the way! Institute of American Indian Arts, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced its first graduate program: a Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Low-Residency MFA Writing programs allow students the opportunity to write and engage with mentors, without having [...] by Harriet Staff

Happy Birthday City Lights! May 8, 2013: Can't decide how to celebrate City Lights's 60th birthday? Try this on for size- courtesy of City Lights' blog: C'est Street Fair 1959 an "ektachrome," yes ektachrome, home movie by Edward Silverstone Taylor, documenting a Street Fair on Upper Grant Avenue, in San Francisco: "the center of beat culture." (Right around the corner from City [...] by Harriet Staff

Eileen Myles Considers Transparency in an Essay Response to Marjorie Perloff May 8, 2013: More Eileen Myles in the news! You've probably already read this one, as it's been making the rounds. If not, head to the new issue of The Volta, where Eileen Myles responds to Marjorie Perloff on conceptualism with emo in her piece "Painted Clear, Painted Black." It's infinitely quotable, as her prose is wont: Poetry’s where men get [...] by Harriet Staff

RE@D ON! May 7, 2013: In December 2011, the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive introduced The Reading Room, a temporary space dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction, nestled within UC Berkeley's Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive ("BAM/PFA"). The Reading Room is curated by Ramsay Bell Breslin, a Kelsey Street editor. As explained by BAM/PFA's [...] by Harriet Staff

Eileen Myles Talks to Noel Black About Shaping a Heap of Women May 7, 2013: Noel Black interviews Eileen Myles at The Brooklyn Rail--immediately striking a worthwhile point, invoking Myles's 2011 essay on poetry and gender, "Being Female," and the fact of I'll Drown My Book: Rail: ...I can’t help but think how much more interesting it would’ve been at this point in history if I’ll Drown My Book had come [...] by Harriet Staff

Richard O. Moore Returns with Poetry (and Videos!) May 7, 2013: Bay Area poets participated in an amazing reading on Sunday by 93 year-old emerging poet Richard O. Moore (who's no stranger to us here, and here). He's the co-founder of KPFA (first listener-supported radio station in the U.S., 1949), a founding member of KQED-TV (sixth U.S. public station to go on the air, 1954) a filmmaker, and the director [...] by Harriet Staff