Marcella Durand named fellow June 25, 2010: Durand will be a 2010-2011 fellow at Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. At Penn, Durand will teach a Spring 2011 undergraduate seminar, “Poetry & Poetics: The Ecology of Poetry.” The course will delve into the emerging discipline of ecopoetics. Students will experiment with writing in forms associated with nature [...] by Poetry News

Bruce Boone Weekend January 28, 2010: This past weekend in New York City I will always remember as the Bruce Boone weekend. On Friday night Boone read as part of a launch event for Nightboat Books at Metro Pictures gallery in Chelsea. He was preceded by Evelyn Reilly and Marcella Durand, who read from the Eco Language Reader (co-published by Nightboat Books and Portable Press at [...] by Thom Donovan