Deterritorializations: Repetition, Stutter, Report (the second of two brief forays with a P.S. to come) May 2, 2013: I want to explore a word that has taken hold of my consciousness and the hum of my interior thoughtscape—a word I realize, as I try to write about it, I don’t quite know how to articulate (which is, perhaps, precisely the articulation this particular word requires). I first encountered the term “untranslation” in Felipe [...] by Jen Hofer

Starting Today! Cecilia K. Corrigan, Lisa Robertson & Marcus Boon at the Lake Forest Literary Festival March 5, 2013: If you're near Chicago, you must be aware of the ninth-annual Lake Forest Literary Festival, taking place from Tuesday (today!), March 5 through Wednesday (tomorrow!), March 6, 2013, sponsored by Lake Forest College and &Now Books/&Now Festival. This year's festival features critic Marcus Boon, and poets Cecilia K. Corrigan and Lisa [...] by Harriet Staff

The Slippery Boundaries of ‘I’: Megan Kaminski Interview in The Millions January 30, 2013: Anne K. Yoder's description of Megan Kaminski's poetry closely mirrors our own interest: "I’ve been drawn to the intelligence, the linguistic precision, and the fascination with systems — ecological, financial, neural — that inform her writing." In an interview for The Millions that borders on being a essay-dialog, Yoder and Kaminski [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive January 29, 2013: We're usually reporting on all the great new new poetry that's dropped in our online archive. Today, we're mixing it up a bit to mention we have three oldies but goodies by Thomas Love Peacock (giving some TLC to TLP (sorry, couldn't resist)). We hope you dig this poem of unrequited love, "I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade," or if you're [...] by Harriet Staff

Feminist Poetics Issue of Evening Will Come January 3, 2013: Denver poet Sara Renee Marshall has tightly edited a "Feminist Issue" of the online go-to Evening Will Come, and it features some good'uns, including "25 Tiny Essays on the Value of Forgetfulness and Sleepiness" by Dawn Lundy Martin and an interview with Lisa Robertson by Julie Carr. One of the most compelling parts of the issue might be the [...] by Harriet Staff

An Interview with the Eds of Revolution: A Reader, Lisa Robertson & Matthew Stadler November 30, 2012: Hazlitt has published an interview with Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler, who co-edited the recent Revolution: A Reader (Publication Studio 2012), "a prismatic, 1,200-page portrait of revolutionary thought," which features writing from "Lucretius, Oscar Wilde, Angela Davis, George Woodcock, Edward Said, Kathy Acker, Mahmoud Darwish, The [...] by Harriet Staff

Constantly Bathing in the Semantic Folds of the New Lana Turner Content November 21, 2012: Issue #5 of the always-revelatory Lana Turner is out, and contains among its gemlike wonders some poetry from Catherine Wagner (also featured maintenant at PEN, but we digress), Claudia Rankine, Sandra Simonds, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Jackqueline Frost, Joe Luna, Jorie Graham, Douglas Piccinnini, Cole Swensen, and Daniel Tiffany; and plentiful [...] by Harriet Staff

Lisa Robertson’s Voiceover for Amy Sillman in Paris July 18, 2012: [caption id="attachment_50185" align="alignright" width="500" caption="[Image from the Artforum site. Amy Sillman, Untitled (01′21, right), 2012, ink-jet print on rice paper, 44 1/8 x 61"."][/caption] An Artforum critic's pick: Amy Sillman and Lisa Robertson, in Paris! Mara Hoberman writes in her review: The centerpiece of Amy [...] by Harriet Staff

New Star Books Office Firebombed! March 8, 2012: This just in from New Star Books. What a strange and frustrating way for Debbie to go: Around 1 o'clock on the early, early morning of March 7, New Star's office at 18th and Commercial Street in East Vancouver was hit by an arson attack. Some sort of Molotov cocktail device was, um, introduced into the office environment, causing minor fire [...] by Harriet Staff

Recent TCR Post Looks at the Feminist Formation of Lisa Robertson February 16, 2012: Speaking of Venus: "[Lisa] Robertson’s Venus is no goddess or muse. She’s a fallen angel who puts on many guises. She’s a 'freelancer and a renter'...." Pauline Butling writes about Robertson's work in a recent Capilano Review blog post (did you know LR is blogging there? and George Bowering?). Butling does us a favor and "pick[s] up on [...] by Harriet Staff