Stephen Kessler on Wanda Coleman
My old West Coast friend Stephen Kessler just brought my attention to his lovely poetryflash obituary for Wanda Coleman, & given that here on the East Coast there was little notice of her passing...
Category: Poetry
Just Out: Anthology Issue of The Volta
“The February issue of The Volta is up and features a special issue on poetry and poetics anthologies, with responses, essays, conversations, and interviews by the editors of many, many poetry anthologies.” Evening Will Come: anthology...
More Sahrawi Poetry
When I was putting together Poems for the Millennium 4 (North African Literature), I asked the excellent Spanish-language translator Joseph Mulligan to help with bringing over some of the work of the Sahrawi poets...
On UK lyric, anti-lyric, and political poetry.
Peter Riley is a poet & commentator whose work I follow with much pleasure & gain. His latest column for the Fortnightly Review is available HERE & here is how Peter describes it: It...
Juan Gelman (1930-2014)
remembering their little bones when it rains the compañeros stomp on darkness set forth from death wander the tender night I hear their voices like living faces —from Remembering Their Little Bones Just learned...
Nicole Peyrafitte Interviewed by Leonard Schwartz
A half hour radio conversation between Nicole Peyrafitte & Leonard Schwartz will air today on KAOS radio at 5:30pm PT — live on 89.3 FM in Washington State. It can be heard anywhere in...
Some Favorite Reads of 2013
I’m a bit late on this, & certainly haven’t read all of the books that came into my house last year, as it sometime takes me a long time to go through the six-foot...
NP & PJ’s New Year’s Day Performances…
… at the 40th Annual New Year’s Day Poetry Project Reading Benefit:
The Portable Boog Reader 7 Now Online!
The Portable Boog Reader 7: HERE N.Y.C. and Pittsburgh N.Y.C. co-editors: Laura Henriksen, Amy King, David A. Kirschenbaum, Geoffrey Olsen, Nicole Peyrafitte, and Angela Veronica Wong Pittsburgh co-editors Margaret Bashaar and Lauren Russell WITH...
75 Years Ago Osip Mandelstam died
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam — О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м — was born January 15 1891 & died 75 years ago today on December 27, 1938 in Siberia at a transit camp to the Gulag where Stalin had sent him...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux