What Does Somethingness Afford? June 3, 2013: [caption id="attachment_68463" align="alignright" width="500"] from “Situations 6″ by John Lucas and Claudia Rankine.[/caption] 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 [...] by Dawn Lundy Martin

An Incomplete Guide to the Poetry Books I Currently Have on Tap (or, When and Why Networks Work) April 29, 2013: All the “best of” or “holiday gift” lists come out in December and January, when books that had our attention in the early (still chilly, here in New Jersey) days of spring have gotten buried beneath . . . let’s say autumn leaves and winter snows.  Here’s a quick list of newish poetry books currently or very recently on my mind, for [...] by Evie Shockley

You Must Watch This Fred Moten Lecture March 12, 2013: Bethany Ides just pointed us to this video of Fred Moten lecturing at Bard last summer, with a "must-see" directive, and she's right. "If you want something relaxing wherein you can still think," along those lines. Watch “The Touring Machine: Flesh Thought Inside Out," which "explores some issues that emerge at the convergence of cognitive [...] by Harriet Staff

Listening to Fred Around the House February 11, 2013: So, right, "Her territory sunflower," the first lines of Fred Moten's poem "B Jenkins," perhaps my favorite poem of recent years. I encountered a recording of it first, & months went by before I found it on a page or on a screen. It was one of those situations where the phonotext (a lovely & useful coinage by Steve Evans) took [...] by Dana Ward

My Remains: poetry, art, and the emergence of the subject April 12, 2011: For the past couple years I have been working on a book of poems that deals with a certain model or mode of subjectivity. I am not sure what to call this book yet, though I have a few titles in mind. The specific model of subjectivity I am working with (I hope at the level of the poem's language) involves a conception of the individual as a kind [...] by Thom Donovan

The Hole (Notes) April 24, 2010: This next month I am revising and typesetting my first book of poems, tentatively titled The Hole. Writing so much criticism and essay and working a lot this past year, it has been difficult at times to hold the ms in my attention. Now that May is before me (the book is due to my publisher, the brilliant Brian Whitener of Displaced Press, June [...] by Thom Donovan

ON Contemporary Practice Volume 2 February 9, 2010: For anyone out in the Bay Area tomorrow night, coeditors Michael Cross and Kyle Schlesinger, and a critical mass of Bay Area contributors will launch ON Contemporary Practice 2 at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. When Michael, Kyle, and I conceived of the journal about two and a half years ago it was at the Tile Bar in the East Village after a [...] by Thom Donovan

Salute to the Bloggers February 4, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Salute-to-the-Harriet-Bloggers1.mp3] by Sotère Torregian