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Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboadaan omnipoetics manifesto, fromPre-face to a Hemispheric Gathering of the Poetry & Poetics of the Americas “from origins to present”, now in production...
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Jeffrey C. Robinson: from Romantic Manifestos Manifesta work in progressThe title of this work in progress adds “Romantic” to the title of a little book of polemics on poetry by the Chilean master of...
View ArticleJeffrey C. Robinson: from “Romantic Manifestos Manifest” (a work in progress).
As an indication of how relentless and intelligent Jeffrey Robinson has been in bringing works of core and marginal Romanticism into their comparisons with later experimental and innovative poetry...
View ArticleJack Foley: Two New Pairings
[PAIRINGS is a sequence in which two (sometimes more) poems meet on the page in the way that persons might meet on the street. For the most part, they stand across the page from one another in the way...
View ArticlePierre Joris: Extracts from Two New Books, Just Published: "Interglacial...
1/ Interglacial Narrows (poems) From Publisher’s site: Interglacial Narrows as published by Contra Mundum Press gathers a range of Pierre Joris’s poems written between 2015 and 2021, including an...
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An otherwise concealed & casual collage by master painter & collagist JESS (Collins). Meant to share it with our friends & fellow artists. Circa 1960
View ArticleWill Alexander: from The Coming Mental Range, the title essay. With...
The Coming Mental RangeAll error proceeds from ignorance (or haste)–fernando pessoaOur circumstance is fouled by protracted haste, by that whichaspires to some form of clinical security. I am...
View ArticleAlison Knowles: 17 Event Scores & Where They Happened, Redux for Her 90th...
[EDITOR’S NOTE. The following are a reminder of the pivotal role played by Alison Knowles in what can be described in retrospect as the Fluxus revolution of the 1960s. With their deceptively simple...
View ArticleAndrew Schelling: Four New Poems for & after Vidyā, with a Note on Landscape...
Cold Stone Wheel Fate has kneaded my heart, dear friend,like a clod of shapeless clayplaced it on the cold stone wheel—set it to spin with bamboo staff—again againaround again I callthe bamboo staff...
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Jerome RothenbergCODA TO A BOOK OF DREAMSFor Robert Kelly [From The Stars in Mindless Space: A Deeper Image. Later & Uncollected Poems. In Progress.] O God, I...
View ArticleIN MEMORIAM MARK WEISS 1943-2023
Looking back at the death, yesterday, of Mark Weiss, I feel the great loss for those of us who loved and so much admired him. And I think back to the piece of his I last posted on Poems & Poetics...
View Articleafter HAKEEM jEFFRIES: AN ALPHABET POEM
Numquam principia nostra componemus. Domus Democratae semper ponetAmerican values over autocracy. Benevolence over bigotry. Constitution over cult. Democracy over demagogues. Economic...
View ArticleMark Weiss: 49 New Hampshire Sketches, with Author’s Note on Death and...
1With my famous knife I scrape the rough spots on the underside of a fungus and find tiny white grubs. 2 Curled inside in a fetal position, there are nine of them. They have round backs, flat,...
View ArticleSean McCann & Charlie Morrow (eds.): “The 12th Annual International Sound...
After years of preparation, Recital is proud to present The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival box set. Held in New York in 1980, this was the last festival of the pioneering sound poetry...
View ArticleLeonard Neufeld: from OFF THE GRID: FIFTEEN ELEGIES, with author’s note
DEDICATION THESE WORKS ARE A MEMORIAL TO RANDEE FALK NOVEMBER 10 1953 TO APRIL 6 2022 FERVENT LOVE FRAMED WITH...
View ArticleAnthony Seidman: Three poems from THAT BEAST IN THE MIRROR (2022)
Photo of Anthony Seidman by Jim Cardenas Poem at 100 M.P.H When the engine growls,when lane markers shootlaser-white, and desert blursover windshield, dust,cacti, sagebrush torched bydecades of...
View ArticleScott Ezell: from Journey to the End of the Empire: On the Road in Eastern...
Camphor Press, 2022https://www.camphorpress.com/books/journey-to-the-end-of-the-empire/In Dali, in the southwest corner of the empire, I watched a man butcher a pig carcass on the street. Thick dead...
View ArticleFrom A Book of Americas (in progress): The Collective Amereida Poem,...
Photo from the first "travesía", voyage, made in 1965Various authorsfromAMEREIDA [AMERODYSSEY] the journey reaches its heightas the eyes its traveled soilwouldn't it reveal in the flesha rhythmto start...
View ArticleRicardo Cázares: New Poems from SO TO SPEAK, with Translator’s Note
Translated from the Spanish by Joe Imwalle1/ (the restbegins with bramblesbushes mulberry trees sprouting at the base of the cypress and I suppose it...
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