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Poems for the Millennium, Volume 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild, now published &...
POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM, VOLUME 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to PresentEdited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg and John...
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Ariel Resnikoff: A New Poem from “Avoidances,” with author’s note & commentary
[Ariel Resnikoff is best known at this point for his translations from the Yiddish poetry of Mikhl Likht & others, but with “Avoidances” he clearly sets out as a composer of poems in his own right...
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Lyn Hejinian: Turbulent Thinking
Every work of art attests to lived experience and reminds us that another human has been here. Echoes aren’t inherently empty. The emotional encounter — the felt awareness of something other that is...
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Readings & Launches April to November 2015
[In line with the recent publication of Poems for the Millennium, volume 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild and other new writings in English & other languages, the following readings & launches are...
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Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg Rissman: Poems for the Millennium, volume...
Adolf Wölfli, Campbell’s Tomato Soup, 1923 [The book itself – Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present– has been announced or re-announced for...
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Jack Foley: from “Under the Influence,” Definitions & Prelude
[The following is from a remarkable essay by Jack Foley, which presents a much needed counter proposition to ideas about “influence” & its “anxieties” that have been present without sufficient...
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Translating André Breton: Robert Duncan & David Antin
[Going through some old files recently I came across two translations by Robert Duncan of poems by the Surrealist overlord & master-poet André Breton. That brought me back too to a series of...
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Efraín Huerta: Some Minimal Poems, from “Poemínimos Completos”
Translations from Spanish by Jerome Rothenbergcalderoniana I wasA fool& whatI lovedHas madeMe Into Two foolsno helping itAnd from UsTheBeatifiedPoetsArisethThe GloomOf the...
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Serge Pey: Three Poems in English from "Why I Crush Tomatoes"
Translated from French by Yasser Elhariry [My first memory of Serge Pey was in Paris, sometime in the early 1980s, when he woke us up in the apartment off Saint Germain that my wife & I were then...
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Homero Aridjis and Pierre Joris: Two Pieces on the PEN American Center Award...
[For the record & because I’m feeling some irritation following the recent PEN Center / Charlie Hebdo brouhaha, I’m posting these two pieces on today’s Poems and Poetics. Both Joris & Aridjis...
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Inrasara: from The Purification Festival in April, with translation from...
[from Inrasara, the purification festival in april, The Culture & Literature Publishing House, Vietnam, 2015]FromALLEGORY OF THE LAND Cham...
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Jerome Rothenberg: Three Poems after Images by Nancy Tobin
[As I approach the seven-year mark of Poems and Poetics, I thought it appropriate to re-post the initial offering in the series, first posted herein on June 7, 2008. Published later that year as a...
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Jerome Rothenberg: Previewing “A Field on Mars”: Two Poems & a Coda from “A...
[The excerpts that follow are from a work in progress, A Field on Mars: Poems 2000-2015, scheduled for publication next year by Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre in simultaneous English &...
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Anne Blonstein: from “worked on screen” (some notarikon poems with a note on...
[Anne Blonstein died much too soon on April 19, 2011. She had by then created a remarkable series of works in which she employed & transformed traditional numerological and hermeneutic procedures...
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Jerome Rothenberg: At the Hotel Monopol
in BreslauPROEM [1988]. It was raining when we got to Wroclaw [Breslau], the miles from Auschwitz bringing back the memories of what had happened there. Traveling with our son we had made...
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Ariel Resnikoff, with Jerome Rothenberg: From an Interview (continued), on...
Jerome Rothenberg, from a production circa 1984 of "That Dada Strain" by Luke Morrison & the Center for Theater Science & Research, San Diego & Lexington, NY[The following is a...
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Technicians of the Sacred, Revised & Expanded: An Announcement & an Appeal
[The following is an early announcement of a work now in progress: the latest expanded & revised edition of Technicians of the Sacred that the University of California Press will be publishing in...
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Robert Kelly, from I TAROCCHI NUOVI or, Major Arcana of the Sacred Ordinary
photo by Jennifer MayPreface: I presume to offer a glimpse of a new Tarot. The major arcana of the deck are ordinary things of this world, and the suits are not four but infinite, for there is no end...
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American Sign Language as a Medium for Poetry
Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner of the Flying Words project performing ASL poetry (Jessica Munyon)for Joseph Castronovo & Edward S. Klima, in memoriam[The great breakthrough resulting from a new...
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Simon Ortiz: “What Indians?” (complete)
The Truth Is: "No kidding?""No.""Come on! That can't be true!""No kidding." "What Indians?" is my too-often unspoken response to people who ask "When do the Indians dance?" Like other colonized...
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