The Bay Area Rocks On: Tripwire #7 is Here, Ouroboros Launches Bandcamp Site

The San Francisco Bay Area is in the grip of the worst drought since the dust bowl, but thankfully there are more than a few souls who are making it rain. This week the eccentric and irreverent band, Ouroboros, launched a brand new website, which includes recordings from the group's first two albums: The Runic Shelves of Particle Plenty and Egalitariophone. Who is Ouroboros? Why, that's Sheldon Brown (tenor saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet), Clark Coolidge (drums), Andrew Joron (theremin), and Joseph Noble (flute, alto flute, soprano and alto saxophones) of course! (Just when we thought that Clark Coolidge had hung up the drums after Serpent Power!) MEANWHILE...

Tripwire relaunched! Yes, Tripwire, the journal of poetics founded in 1998 by Yedda Morrison and David Buuck, is present. Tripwire #7 (which hit newsstands this month) features:

Jen Coleman, Leslie Kaplan (trans. Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap), Rodrigo Toscano, Jeroen Mettes (trans. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & introduced by Samuel Vriezen), Lesego Rampolokeng, Heather Fuller, Nathan Cordero, Donato Mancini, Trish Salah, Arnold Joseph Kemp, Hsia Yü (trans. Steve Bradbury), Carlos Soto-Román, Tonya Foster, Rachel Zolf, Eric Sneathen on Dodie Bellamy, Julia Bloch on Divya Victor, Robin Tremblay-McGaw on Harryette Mullen, Nicky Tiso on David Wolach, plus a special feature on British poetry, featuring Nat Raha, Sean Bonney, Connie Scozzaro, Francesca Lisette, Emily Critchley, Verity Spott, William Rowe, Jennifer Cooke, Robert Kiely on Samantha Walton, and Colleen Herd & Pocahontas Mildew. October 2014. 230 pages.

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