Here are some words I read for Dave Nolan's funeral on behalf of the 92nd St. Y this Wednesday afternoon at St. Mark's Church. The s...

here While there were many memorable moments about Westwater’s highly episodic work, two particular moments of the performance struck me as ...

here Something which attracts me to Levitsky’s book are the narrative qualities of the writing. How a sense of scene or episode is always er...

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our longtime friend David Nolan. David suffered a heart attack last Thursd...

--for Steve Collis Spilled in the language's veins A militant regard When will it be A tool for something other Than exchange watching u...

here “Not let this story dry” (aka “The Dolors of Glenn Beck” or “Instant Tears”), will take up a proposition from Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics: ...

http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/02/oncontemporary-practice-2.html

here "So much to say, but one thing I’m curious as to yr thinking is the sort of standardized sense of how poetry becomes public. I’ve ...

--after Kathy Westwater and Jennifer Scappettone I want to make a park with you Make a campfire in the park Like Mylar crinkles like light i...

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here "Opposing the volcanic with the solar, Adnan evokes the power of the immanent as a power outshining the light of the sun. This pow...

ON Contemporary Practice vol. 2 launches tomorrow at Moe's Books in Berkeley, CA. Here's my write up about the event and vol. 2 at ...

Those little pricks You make in a palimpsest Of resent and loneliness Called notes to the self All rhetoric no eyes To account for big Exclu...

Commoning: How Things Hold Together And How The Way In Which We're Currently Going About Things As A Society Is Not How Things Hold Toge...

For a commons Not a symptom Of this world Another world Cut down There has never Been a commons Really Except in our breath Now propertied P...

here Often people discuss a new “sincerity” among an emergent generation of artists. In countless ways, Gutierrez’s choreography represents ...

here By bringing the body/person of the translator into play—the ad hominem translator if you will—Brown cites the translator as a vital rel...

here "How to bring bodies together? How to recognize conditions of possibility in the way we are already together? While it is essentia...

here "This weekend I will be presenting with Rob Halpern and Robert Kocik at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel about the histories a...

The latest Poetry Project Newsletter features reviews by Stan Mir (on Michael Gizzi), Jill Magi (on M. Nourbse Philip's Zong! ), and Lau...