On Susan Howe, Doubles, Telepathy May 13, 2013: The psychics among you might like this piece at The Actuary by Beth Towle--on Susan Howe, "finding doubles," and telepathy's interactions with poetry: Communication, then, is reading traces. And reading traces is to make copies. And to make copies is to attempt to speak for ourselves. Perhaps then the mode of working through archival [...] by Harriet Staff

Deterritorializations: Repetition, Stutter, Report (the first of two brief forays) May 1, 2013: [caption id="attachment_66003" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Errorist International[/caption] The book is liquid dreams. Writing is stone. Writing is breath unheld. The book is air and underground passages. Where there is no water, but light is liquid. Where warm bodies gather. In translation what there is to say vibrates (vacillates? [...] by Jen Hofer

Bright Red Words April 30, 2013: [caption id="attachment_66022" align="alignright" width="500"] Louise Bourgeois, I HAD A FLASHBACK OF SOMETHING THAT NEVER EXISTED, 2002, Photo: Christopher Burke, © Louise Bourgeois Trust/VAGA, NY[/caption] Most poets I believe love words as objects in themselves. They seem delicious to me, as if I could just pluck one from an overhanging [...] by Camille Guthrie

On Susan Howe on Chris Marker at LARB March 29, 2013: Posted yesterday at the Los Angeles Review of Books is a review of the New Directions poetry pamphlet (that we mentioned the other day) by Susan Howe, Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker. Though at 48 pages, it seems less a pamphlet and more, as writer Rebecca Ariel Porte notes, "an odd beast, a memoir mixed with notes [...] by Harriet Staff

Introducing the Reincarnated Poetry Pamphlet Series from New Directions March 21, 2013: We're happily stunned by New Directions's first series of Poetry Pamphlets--Bernadette Mayer mentioned The Helens of Troy, New York (for which she won a Creative Capital grant), in a recent interview; and we wrote about the Susan Howe pamphlet reprint of her Chris Marker piece, Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker, upon [...] by Harriet Staff

Sorting Facts July 31, 2012: We are very sad to hear of filmmaker Chris Marker's passing at the age of 91. In sorting through the news items about his death, we came across this exciting piece at the New Directions blog. We're of course thrilled to see ND will be publishing Susan Howe's essay on Marker, Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker in their [...] by Harriet Staff

At Full Stop: The Paper-Poems of Erica Baum & Susan Howe July 3, 2012: At Full Stop, Sam Rowe has a beautiful essay centering on Erica Baum's recent collection of photographs, Dog Ear (UDP 2011), which "contains 24 close-up color photos, shot with crisp uniformity, of carefully dog-eared pages in old books, with fragments of text from two facing pages running horizontally and vertically and meeting in a diagonal [...] by Harriet Staff

Flavorwire Thinks of 10 Feminist Poets May 18, 2012: Flavorwire did everyone a favor and made a list of "10 feminist poets you should know." You might already know them. You might have more. We do! Like, a million! Michael Nicoloff, looking at you. Anyway, they've got Maya Angelou, Anne Waldman, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood, Lyn Hejinian, Alice Walker, Katha Pollitt, Susan Howe, Carolyn [...] by Harriet Staff

“Frolic Architecture” at PennSound March 7, 2012: This week PennSound posted video of the Susan Howe/David Grubbs duo performing their text-soundscape piece "Frolic Architecture." Check out the fractured, atmospheric vibe here. by Harriet Staff