Yale University has announced that Charles Bernstein, also diretor of Sibila, has been awarded the 2019 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. Read all about it. The jury for this year’s prize was Claudia Rankine, Evie Shockley, and Ange Mlinko. I am grateful to them for this acknowledgement. The Bollingen is given for lifetime achievement and for Near/Miss. […]
From Work in progress titled “Plan B Audio” retrofit faulty recall 12 step program false totem etiquette unforeseen shabby tragedy advanced directive flawed object holy water infected tissue buyer’s remorse tabloid sensitivities miniaturized and fragmented reverberation of massive proportions executive order belittling the moon befitting a dragon estranged from oneself […]
Heinrich Heine translated into English by David Bergman [Wie schändlich du gehandelt] I’ve kept your dirty secret, in public stayed aloof, but rowed my little dingy out to tell the fish the truth. I won’t keep your reputation from spreading near and far, but just beyond the shoreline they know how sick you are. […]
K. Srivastava with his three books of poetry: Ineluctable Stillness (2005), An Armless Hand Writes (2008 & second reprint 2012) and Shadows of the Real (2012) has come to establish himself as a well-recognized poet at a global level. Antara Deo Sen’s edited magazine- The Little Magazine describes Srivastava’s poems as ‘well-aroused, tormenting,’ while Patrick […]
#Hillarious #Incredibility #2017 Goingfwd: 2ward a fMotherland under Deconstruction Some Realtime Musings Between Now and Then 119 After Cecilia Corrigan’s Motherland 2016 @ ISSUE Project Room, December 3, 2016, 8pm, NYC, NYC, USA, tbc Kyoo Lee >> “A Political Witch-Hunt” >> “Lock her up” lock her up locker up & down […]
[untitled poem from Caprichos e Relaxos, 1983] My cut-off head Thrown in your window Moon-lit night Window Open Hits the wall Loses some teeth Falls to the bed Heavy with thought Maybe it’s scary Maybe you’ll blink Seeing by moon The color of my eyes Maybe you’ll think It’s just your alarm clock On the […]
One of the most important Brazilian poets of the postwar generations,Cabral continues to exert a strong influence on many younger Brazilian poets. As Régis Bonvincino writes to me about Cabral: “Along with Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Murilo Mendes, Cabral is considered the best poet of Brazilian Poetry born in the 20’s.” Cabral’s Selected Poetry: 1937-1990 is published […]
by Hugo García Manríquez from Litmus Press & Aldus English excerpt: pdf Español extracto: pdf pdf La introducción en español sigue al inglés. ON ANTI-HUMBOLDT (selections) In an article from 2010, “Alarma mundial por la violencia en México” (“World Alarm at Violence in Mexico”), Mexican journalist Marcela Turati cites the conclusions from a report […]
excerpt from Let the Games Begin (Talisman, 2015, available from SPD) 5. If for some reason you need to stay in the City, (Ah, let me guess: your mistress!), then please listen to my advice from the City. That man who snaps the chain around his heart frees himself from pain and he won’t have to feel […]
Full pamphlet, In a Ray of Sunlight, at EPC Digital Library (pdf) translated from Hungarian by Nathaniel Barratt (Budapest: Corvina Books, 2008 new york, madison avenue if you were to say new york, i’d say madison ave, it’s nighttime, i’m heading downtown towards 31st, i’m looking for a sandwich, or something, and have no idea how […]