Curtis Harnack Wrapped Me in a Shawl

New Tomaž Šalamun e-chapbook up from Scantily Clad Press.

NB: Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices has just been published by Harcourt.

NB2: Tomaž Šalamun will read at Pegasus Books Downtown Saturday, October 4.

Informal discourse.

Like a week ago (yeah): Ada Limón on Hallelujah Blackout.

Bush gets booed.

THIS IS A TEST 
THIS IS A TEST

"You are deserving."

"Following the structure of the ancient Greek classic, THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY features alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original Odyssey and, equipped as well with a faux-authoritative scholarly introduction, richly carries off the illusion of being the lost ur-text of Homer's masterpiece. Justifying comparison with the great postmodern fictive hoaxes of Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover, this is a one-of-a-kind book destined to become a classic in its own right."

READING TONIGHT

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Richard Silberg & Thomas Centolella

GET READY

Cue Royal Trux.

SPRING 08

NOW

I lack rigor: but and so I greatly enjoy people robuster than I am grappling (I think that's the word) (maybe it's not) with terms both known (squishy) and unknown (bold or apologetic).

Poetry, I can nearly agree with myself, crafts language that is deliberately different. Other, langue, parole—I can only brush these things off my trouser knee. There is something unsteady about sexy, but also elevated, eloquent, lyrical. I'm not ashamed to say when I was younger, reading Shakespeare, I used to laugh out loud at the great lines, or I thought great. But they weren't funny. They were just superfine. Why did I laugh?

It is that enterprise there, that, other.

If I like it, I call it a brown cow.

BE SHOCKED BY PASTOR WRIGHT

I warn you, you might lose your breakfast. From the extended clips below appear Pastor Jeremiah Wright's "America's chickens are coming home to roost" and "God damn America" lines, and the salience of their being taken out of context is both stunning and nauseating. Who are our media?

I rarely try to tell you what to do.

Sunny skies in Iraq is a fantasy.

TWO READINGS

good friday


holy saturday

Simon DeDeo on
two new from Ugly Duckling Presse:

TONIGHT!

The Time We Killed
A film by Jennifer Reeves
in collaboration with the poet Lisa Jarnot
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

TRIPLE CANOPY

Adding to here and here, off the top of my head:

and everything from Action Books.

Rev. Wright's comments don't bother me at all.

IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD YOU SHOULD HAVE

K. SILEM MOHAMMAD
HAS JOINED THE PANEL OF REVIEWERS AT
CONSTANT CRITIC

TONIGHT!

BILL LUOMA
LAURA MORIARTY

  @ SPT

onedit 10

READING TONIGHT
JEFFREY HARRISON & CATHLEEN MICHEAELS

Next week Linh Dinh begins his three-month run contributing to the Poetry Foundation's blog, Harriet.

galatea resurrects #9 (a poetry engagement)

Kind-Hearted Ms. Geum-Ja

It's all in the can. The white elephant squawks tremendously. For all the books we want to read, the piles we trip on in the night, repile, lose.

HERE

Miles Champion ▪ Linh Dinh
Ange Mlinko ▪ Arlo Quint

White people like difficult poetry.

Qua?

READING TONIGHT

Ananda Esteva & James Tracy

TONIGHT!
Thursday, March 6
7PM—9PM
@ THE ALBANY LIBRARY

featured poet
JOSHUA CLOVER
and open mike (which birds tell me will be wadeworthy)

PPL IN A DEPOT by Gary Sullivan
SOUND REMAINS by John Tritica
8x8x7 by Colin Smith
MOMENTARY SONGS by George Albon

READING TONIGHT
Michael Slosek, François Luong, & Jennifer Karmin

It's ...

BUY JOE MASSEY'S THOUGHTS.

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READING TOMORROW NIGHT
Contributors to the new collection A SING ECONOMY: An Anthology of Contemporary Experimental Poetry FRANÇOIS LUONG, MICHAEL SLOSEK, & JENNIFER KARMIN

All of today's primaries are open.

Vermont: 15 Democratic delegates at stake
polls close @ 7PM ET

Ohio: 141 Democratic delegates at stake
polls close @ 7:30PM ET

Rhode Island: 21 Democratic delegates at stake
polls close @ 9PM ET

Texas: 193 Democratic delegates at stake
polls close @ 9PM ET (although most close @ 8PM ET);
caucuses slated to begin 15 minutes after the polls close

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, DIANE DI PRIMA

2008 OMNIDAWN POETRY PRIZE

First or second full-length book
Entries postmarked on or between
March 1, 2008, and June 30, 2008

Read a novel.