Deterritorializations: Nominal Problems April 12, 2013: [caption id="attachment_64951" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Ungraffiti in the Los Angeles River channel from the Broadway Street Bridge[/caption] Sometimes I think of everything animate (and, frankly, most things inanimate) as systems of motion. If we are healthy, there are close to a thousand species of bacteria and fungi on our skin, [...] by Jen Hofer

Marie Buck’s Amazing Weapons Reviewed by Brandon Brown January 4, 2013: [caption id="attachment_59158" align="alignright" width="500"] Marie Buck’s Amazing Weapons[/caption] Brandon Brown has reviewed Marie Buck's new chapbook, Amazing Weapons, at Jacket2. We never tire of chapbooks. Besides hearing someone read in person, a chapbook is our favorite way to encounter new work. Scary Topiary Press, edited by [...] by Harriet Staff

Translation and Revolt November 8, 2012: Since these are posts that are supposed to concern the craft of poetry, I suppose it's okay to commence with a very practical remark about how I typically start a piece of writing. Essentially, in that very moment of total oceanic openness, the moment all poets know as the maximally porous time of Aeolian Harpitude, Spicerian Martians knocking [...] by Brandon Brown

Welcome to ‘Craft Work,’ Brandon Brown November 7, 2012: This month Brandon Brown will be writing for our "Craft Work" series. In case you don't know, Brandon Brown is the author of The Persians By Aeschylus, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, and Flowering Mall. In 2012, his debut play Charles Baudelaire the Vampire Slayer was staged at Small Press Traffic’s Poet’s Theater. He publishes [...] by Harriet Staff

A Brolaski Extravaganza!!! July 24, 2012: The City Lights blog is lighting it up with TONS of great writing and recordings by and about Julian Talamantez Brolaski. The occasion, of course, is the publication of his Advice for Lovers earlier this year. All of this is brought to us by way of Garrett Caples (recently published here, btw, and recorded here). Caples sets the scene [...] by Harriet Staff

Danny’s Reading Series this Wednesday June 11, 2012: Last week we were stoked about Ron Silliman posting readings from the Cy Press reading series. Now, for those of you hanging around Chicago this Wednesday evening, head over to Danny's to check out Dana Ward (host of Cy Press) and Brandon Brown (Cy Press reader) read for the Danny's Tavern Reading Series. As a mega-bonus, Chris Martin and Mary [...] by Harriet Staff

Silliman’s serving Cy Press poetry June 6, 2012: [caption id="attachment_47625" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Brandon Brown (foreground), Dana Ward (background)"][/caption] We want to give a huge thanks to Ron Silliman for connecting us to the Cy Press Reading Series, via PennSound. Thus far this week, he's posted readings by Stephanie Young, Brandon Brown, Arlo Quint, John Coletti, [...] by Harriet Staff

Rêve Parisien: Brandon Brown & Thom Donovan Talk Shop March 15, 2012: Don't know if you've been reading the first or second installments of the great correspondence between Thom Donovan and Brandon Brown over at BOMBLOG, but now there's a third! Called "Enframing the Brink," the poets are "div[ing] deep into the realms of literary theory and leftist politics in their epistolary exchange." A bit from Donovan in [...] by Harriet Staff

Brandon Brown on Lana Del Ray & Jon Leon March 1, 2012: Fantastic. Brandon Brown responds to Jon Leon's The Malady of the Century, just out from Futurepoem Books. Right off the bat, Brown compares the melodramatic "malady" to Lana Del Ray's recent video for "Video Games." Leon and Del Ray both remind Brown "that the real present malady of our new century is a decline in sensibility." [...] by Harriet Staff

New Responses at the Poetic Labor Project Include Dana Ward, Bhanu Kapil & ter Braak May 26, 2011: The Poetic Labor Project, a collective research blog centered around the discussion of poetics and labor, has some newness afoot. They've posted a third round of responses (also available as a PDF), this time around from Dana Ward, Bhanu Kapil, and ter Braak, who explains the appellation thusly: "This iteration of 'ter Braak' speaks out of a [...] by Harriet Staff