Eileen Myles Talks to Noel Black About Shaping a Heap of Women May 7, 2013: Noel Black interviews Eileen Myles at The Brooklyn Rail--immediately striking a worthwhile point, invoking Myles's 2011 essay on poetry and gender, "Being Female," and the fact of I'll Drown My Book: Rail: ...I can’t help but think how much more interesting it would’ve been at this point in history if I’ll Drown My Book had come [...] by Harriet Staff

“Black declares, in an almost off-handed way, that poetry can’t do anything important”: A Review of Noel Black’s Uselysses August 29, 2012: Josh Cook wrote this Rumpus review of Noel Black's Uselysses. A taste: In poem after poem, in the first three books of Uselysses, Black declares, in an almost off-handed way, that poetry can’t do anything important. He is demonstrating self-conscious awareness of the limitations of the written word, or catering to some requirement [...] by Harriet Staff

Now in Color: UDP Puts Noel Black’s Sold-Out Moby K. Dick Online February 20, 2012: Very cool: As part of the pre-sale for Noel Black's new book, Uselysses (you read that right), Ugly Duckling Presse also made a special edition of Black's chapbook, Moby K. Dick (sensing a pattern here); and now they've gone and made it digital. It's a beaut, with poems using lexicon from novels and full-color collages both—right off, you'll [...] by Harriet Staff