Indian Country profiles Navajo poet, Sherwin Bitsui, with a particular interest in the creation of his book Flood Song, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009. If you don’t know Bitsui already, this interview is one great way to get to know him. When did you realize you were going to be a poet? I [...]

This week’s Omniverse reprints a lengthened version of Evelyn Reilly’s talk entitled “Environmental Dreamscapes and Ecopoetic Grief,” which she presented at the 2013 U.C. Berkeley Eco-poetics Conference. Reilly’s talk includes fantastic analysis on the state of ecopoetics, what it feels like to be an eco-poet, thoughts on Alan Gilbert’s recent scholarship on interdisciplinary arts in [...]

Take off your harness winkers and get thee to Archive of the Now, where the first recording from the new U.S./UK simultaneous reading series, UnAmerican Activities, has just flown forth. Reading One, which took place on May 12 in New York and May 12 in Cambridge (Cubism rise!), featured Lanny Jordan Jackson on our side [...]

This just in, from our friends at Melville House: on Saturday, a Chilean judge ordered police to start looking for one man, who may have killed Pablo Neruda. This command is the culmination of a two-year campaign to investigate the Nobel laureate’s cause of death, which began when the poet’s former driver alleged that Neruda [...]

We don’t usually book-announce, but this is one to know: The gorgeous UK-based Skysill Press has just announced the long-awaited first full-length from New York poet Arlo Quint, whose poems, as John Ashbery blurbs here, “have the remote, enraptured quality of the lines that Orpheus copies down from his car radio in the Cocteau film, [...]

Good news: Notre Dame’s Letras Latinas (the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies, if you aren’t awares) is turning some leaves in a new partnership and book series with Noemi Press; the initiative will showcase new books by Latina/o writers! First book to be published will be Boxing the Compass, by Sandy Florian. [...]

If you’re around the Sacramento area this summer, you won’t want to miss a large scale exhibition focusing on the visual art of Jess and the poetry of Robert Duncan. From the Sacramento Bee: Artist Jess Collins, simply known as Jess, and poet Robert Duncan met in 1950 at a time of great cultural ferment [...]

Stop the presses! Er, we mean, START THE PRESSES! We just caught wind of a fabulous project that seeks to publish poet Will Alexander’s novella Alien Weaving. Not only does the campaign seek to put the book into print, but it’s also meant to Kick Start further publishing efforts by the small press Anonymous Energy. [...]

“The Anteproportional” is a thoroughly felt piece on artist Jenny Holzer’s texts and her relationship to poetics; take a read at Big Shiny Poems. “Holzer seems like a forerunner to the things so many people, myself included, have been struggling with in poetry lately. I won’t repeat the old chestnut about poetry’s tarry-along relationship to [...]

Impossible Mike deftly writes about Nicole Brossard’s White Piano in this post on HTMLGiant. Completely stunning, right-on analysis of performance writing and how it operates on the page. He first looks at those (broken? phantom?) promises of Modernism that Post-Modernism announced were over. Then moves on to look at Brossard’s poems: Part of Brossard’s poetic [...]

After recently being prompted by the Naropa Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, I watched Fred Moten’s lecture “An Ecology of (Eloquent) Things” on YouTube, which helped me begin to put some language to my thoughts of late. The ends of the spectrum I borrow from Moten go like this: on one end there’s something [...]

In response to Kenny Goldsmith’s upcoming installation at LABOR (a Mexico City art space) asking participants to print out the internet, a petition is growing on Change.org, asking the artist not to move further with the installation, citing environmental factors. According to the petition: A sustainable responsible approach to life requires that humans adopt a [...]

At HTMLGIANT, Ben Tripp writes one of the first reviews of Dana Ward’s Crisis of Infinite Worlds (Futurepoem 2013), noting that while the title poem’s central subject is Krystal Cole, “you don’t have to be in-the-know about anything like that to enjoy this poem, or the book.” Tripp first came across the poem in a [...]

First there was the newfound audio–but now we can see! The Smithsonian’s YouTube channel has just posted Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan reading from their collaborative poem “Memorial Day.” More info: This reading of Waldman and Berrigan’s poem “Memorial Day” was performed as part of a reading series at 98 Greene Street Loft curated by [...]

This just in from Yahoo! News: for his upcoming installation at LABOR, an art space in Mexico City, conceptual poet, Kenny Goldsmith would like you to print out the internet. Wha? Come again? Yes, that’s right. Print out the internet. For those of you who might be scratching your heads, Goldsmith is asking participants to [...]

MIT Press Books is having an enormous sale online right now: anytime between today and June 3rd, enter code “SHARE50″ at the checkout in order to receive fifty percent off of your entire order. Don’t be afraid to scope out their site and pick out a few of your favorites! It’s such a generous sale, [...]

Jen Bervin is hosting the Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading at Poets House next Tuesday–sounds like a fun time and a good way to introduce yourselves to some new and very talented writers (especially if the faculty they’ve been working with has had any effect whatsoe’er–nice lineup there, too). The reading details: Tuesday, June 4, 7:00PM [...]

Thanks to Blake Butler, at Vice we’re reminded how very cool and essential Fence and Fence Books have been over the years. Before digging into some of his favorite Fence titles, Butler introduces thus: Since 1998, Fence magazine has been independently publishing a biannual journal of prose, poetry, art, and criticism; in 2001, they began [...]

How else could we find out the really cool details about poets that we love, like, that Tan Lin writes in his office about disco, if it weren’t for The Volta’s Take Down the Clouds: 1. Where are you now? in my office, which is also a closet, in NYC. 2. What are you working [...]

It’s going to be a festival for sure. The best kind, a small press poetry festival! Following on the heels of last year’s successful event, the Midwest Small Press Festival is back with year #2. Kicking things off this year are our friends Cathy Wagner and Dana Ward (who, coincidentally, are standing right here at [...]