Tuesday, July 20, 2010
BASIL KING'S EXHIBITION REVIEWED
Basil King's exhibition at Poets House is reviewed in the current Exquisite Corpse. Worth checking out!
Basil King's exhibition at Poets House is reviewed in the current Exquisite Corpse. Worth checking out!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
THOMAS FINK REVIEWED AT P-RAMBLINGS!
William Allegrezza provides a brief review of Thomas Fink's clarity and other poems over at p-ramblings. Click on excerpt below for whole review:
William Allegrezza provides a brief review of Thomas Fink's clarity and other poems over at p-ramblings. Click on excerpt below for whole review:
"...these pieces are fascinating to me because they retain and explode the sonnet form and at the same time they create a new look for the form. By that, I mean that they seem like shaped poems, but they have replaced the square form of the sonnet with something new.
Friday, July 09, 2010
CONVERSATION AND POEM WITH NEIL DE LA FLOR
Neil de la Flor is highlighted in The Rumpus with an interview by Megan Roth and an original poem. Click HERE for a supersized presentation!
Neil de la Flor is highlighted in The Rumpus with an interview by Megan Roth and an original poem. Click HERE for a supersized presentation!
Sunday, July 04, 2010
INTERVIEW WITH BURT KIMMELMAN
Thomas Fink interviews Burt Kimmelman about his newest book, AS IF FREE (Talisman), over at Jacket Magazine. Click on excerpt below for the link to this elucidating article:
Thomas Fink interviews Burt Kimmelman about his newest book, AS IF FREE (Talisman), over at Jacket Magazine. Click on excerpt below for the link to this elucidating article:
...speaking of form, I want never to lose sight of the fact that a poem or song or painting etc. is always first and foremost a form and if we happen to care about getting close to its author then we need to imagine what that person was doing in creating that artifact. That is the basis for a useful conversation.
NEW EXHIBIT FOR BASIL KING
Basil King is featured in the following new exhibition:
Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946 - 1981)
July 7, 2010 - September 11, 2010
The show opens Wednesday, July 7, 6-8 p.m. at Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th - 3rd floor, New York.
The show includes two works by Basil King from the 1950s -- a cover for Yugen magazine and the cover for (the then) LeRoi Jones' Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.
Poems & Pictures examines relationships between visual and language art. The exhibit features over 60 books produced between 1946 and 1981, as well as paintings, collages, periodicals, and ephemera. Poets, artists and collaborators include Wallace Berman, Joe Brainard, Robert Creeley, Jim Dine, Johanna Drucker, Philip Guston, Joanne Kyger, Emily McVarish, Karen Randall, Larry Rivers, George Schneeman, and many more.
Basil King is featured in the following new exhibition:
Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946 - 1981)
July 7, 2010 - September 11, 2010
The show opens Wednesday, July 7, 6-8 p.m. at Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th - 3rd floor, New York.
The show includes two works by Basil King from the 1950s -- a cover for Yugen magazine and the cover for (the then) LeRoi Jones' Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.
Poems & Pictures examines relationships between visual and language art. The exhibit features over 60 books produced between 1946 and 1981, as well as paintings, collages, periodicals, and ephemera. Poets, artists and collaborators include Wallace Berman, Joe Brainard, Robert Creeley, Jim Dine, Johanna Drucker, Philip Guston, Joanne Kyger, Emily McVarish, Karen Randall, Larry Rivers, George Schneeman, and many more.
Saturday, July 03, 2010
MARSH HAWK PRESS CITED IN HUFFINGTON POST
Marsh Hawk Press is cited in a Huffington Post article on small presses; here's how it begins:
Marsh Hawk Press is cited in a Huffington Post article on small presses; here's how it begins:
To celebrate Independence Day, here are 15 small presses that exemplify the best qualities of this publishing tradition--so characteristic of America, where the upstarts and rebels and truly ornery literary entrepreneurs flourish side by side with the bloated conglomerate publishing houses. At their best, the independent presses represent democracy, flattening of hierarchy, and dynamic feedback.
One criterion above all was used to select these 15 presses: Are these presses taking risks? Are they publishing material conglomerate publishing turns away, yet finding critical--and even financial--success? Are they ahead of the cultural curve--pushing literary trends--rather than behind it? Would there be a noticeable cultural hole in their absence? Safety, caution, and submission are not being rewarded on this Independence Day.
