The Summit Is Coming! The Summit Is Coming! May 21, 2013: The East Bay Poetry Summit is almost here! The East Bay Poetry Summit begins this weekend in Berkeley! (Thanks, in part, to generous donations to its successful Indiegogo campaign.) The summit will draw poets from across the U.S. to Oakland and Berkeley, to give poetry readings at several of the East Bay's thriving house reading serieses. [...] by Harriet Staff

On Knowing: Quasi-intelligibility, or Good-bye National Poetry Month! May 3, 2013: In On Photography, Susan Sontag discusses Walter Benjamin’s ideal work of literary criticism. According to Sontag, for Benjamin, the ideal work of literary of criticism would be made up of nothing but quotes. Sontag writes: “Benjamin’s own ideal project reads like a sublimated version of the photographer’s activity. This project was a [...] by Roger Reeves

Highlights from the One-Year Anniversary Issue of The Volta: Jen Hofer & John Pluecker’s Antena Project January 2, 2013: The Volta, a multimedia project of poetry, criticism, poetics, video, conversation and interview celebrates its one-year anniversary with a new January issue. We're especially excited by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker's multimedia poetic dialog on the Antena Project in The Conversant. In their words, the Antena Project is "a language [...] by Harriet Staff

Great Audio Interview with Jen Hofer at The Pleistocene November 26, 2012: Jen Hofer is interveiwed over at The Pleistocene. Recorded, as they tell us, via Skype between Tucson and Oakland on October 29, 2012; and pictures taken in Tucson when Jen was in town for her reading at Casa Libre. Says Hofer: "I don't believe in prizes (unless they're given to me)." She deserves them! She also talks much on [...] by Harriet Staff

Mexican Poet and Activist Javier Sicilia Calls for Change in U.S.-Backed Drug War with a Month-Long U.S. Peace Caravan August 20, 2012: We were all about Mexican poet and activist Javier Sicilia several months ago. Lucky for everyone, he is on the move. Over at Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviews Sicilia about his tour of of the States--that's right, he's here, for "a month-long journey across the United States to call for an end of the U.S.-backed drug war." [...] by Harriet Staff

Pierre Joris Chooses Jen Hofer for 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award June 6, 2012: Jen Hofer has won the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, chosen by Pierre Joris, for translating Negro Marfil/Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues 2011). Joris says of his choice: Myriam Moscona's book Negro Marfil is a superbly orchestrated rhizomatic array of poems or, to quote the book, "an echo of shares." This [...] by Harriet Staff

Papers for the Border Podcast #13: The Poetry Episode May 7, 2012: Check out #13 of The Papers for the Border Podcast, run by Dan Coffey. This is the Poetry Episode, and features recordings from Carla Harryman, Rod Smith, Hannah Weiner, Jackson Mac Low, Jen Hofer, Leslie Scalapino, David Antin ("Who Are My Friends?"), Anne Waldman with Steve Lacy, Heather Fuller, Alvin Curran with Clark Coolidge, Susana Gardner, [...] by Harriet Staff