The Poetry Project Newsletter

#228 October/November 2011

• Letters/Announcements
• Part Architecture, Part Language:Marjorie Welish & Ben Lerner in Conversation
• Open House by Brian Blanchfield
• Notes from the Border by Rosa Acalá
• A Tribute to Akilah Oliver (1961-2011) by Rachel Levitsky
• In Memoriam: Paul Violi (1944-2011) by Tony Towle & Charles North
• Upcoming Poetry Project Workshops
• Poetry Project Events
• Book Reviews: Erica Kaufman on Jane Sprague Imaginary Syllabi, Brandon Brown on Camille Roy Sherwood Forest, Abigail Child on Andrew Levy Cracking Up, Jeffery Berg on Summer Browning Either Way I’m Celebrating, Lauren Russel on Jamey Jones Blue Rain Morning, Alice Whitwham on Uyen Hua a/s/l
• Questions for Tea Party Republican Press
• Cover & Interior Art: James Kaston
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#227 April/May 2011

• Letters/Announcements
• Poem: Song of the Andoumboulou 99 1/2 – Nathaniel Mackey
• Interview: A Conversation with Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Patrick James Dunagan & Chapbook Roundup, Catherine Wagner on Andrea Brady, CA Conrad on Susie Timmons, Farrah Field on Paul Legault, Carley Moore on Eileen Myles, Erik Anderson on Renee Gladman, David Brazil on Mina Pam Dick, Stephanie Dickinson on Lewis Warsh, Matt Longabucco on Milosz Biedrzycki, Jamie Townsend on Paul Foster Johnson, Abraham Avnisan on Caroline Bergvall, Nicole Trigg on Juliana Leslie, Erica Kaufman on Karinne Keithley
• Visuals: Max Warsh
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#226 February/March 2011

• Letters/Announcements
• In Memoriam: “Remembering Daniel Davidson” – Georged Albon
• Essay: “Minds do exist to agitate and provoke / this is the reason I do not conform” —Anna Mendelssohn – Sean Bonney
• Poems: Sampler – Peter Culley
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Kareem Estefan & Chapbook Roundup, Jess Barbagallo on Dodie Bellamy, Alli Warren on John Coletti, W. Martin on Miltos Sachtouris, Barry Schwabsky on Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan, Diane Ward on Jane Sprague, Vladislav Davidzon on Srecko Kosovel, Karinne Keithley Syers on Leslie Scalapino, Matthew Timmons on Steven Zultanski
• Visuals: Photocopier Print #17 – Ben Wadler
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#225 December 2010/January 2011

• Letters/Announcements
• In Memoriam: Michael Gizzi – Two Recent Poems and Remembrances, Miles Champion, Tim Davis, Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Bernadette Mayer, Brian Kim Stefans, Craig Watson & Geoffrey Young
• Essay:Prison-House of Commons – Sean Bonney Vis-a-Vis Thom Donovan – Richard Owens
• Poems: Three Poems – Evan Kennedy
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Eddie Hopely & Chapbook Roundup, Anna Moschovakis & Daniel Kane, Emily Pettit & Dorothea Lasky, Brad Flis & Ronaldo V. Wilson,
  Rodney Koeneke & Macgregor Card & Karen Weiser, Tracey Mctague & Allison Cobb, Stephen Motika & Susan Gevirtz, David Auerbach & Christian Hawkey, Brian Unger & Denise Newman
• Visuals: Art – Jon Beacham
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#224 October/November 2010

• Letters/Announcements
• In Memoriam: Thom Donovan remembers Dave Nolan.
• Essay:Robert Walser – Modern Method, Not Madness – Barbara Cole
• Poem: Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Ariana Reines
• Interview: Miles Champion & Trevor Winkfield
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Josef Kaplan & Chapbook Roundup, Jordan Davis & Tan Lin, Hailey Higdon & Chris McCreary, Paul Killebrew & Anselm Berrigan, Michael Nicolof & Erica Kaufman, Ken Walker & Edwin Torres, Sarah Wintz & Catherine Wagner, Ben Fama & Matvei Yankelevich, Mark Mendoza & Tom Raworth
• Visuals: Art – Erica Wessmann
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#223 April 2010/May 2010

• Letters/Announcements
• Performance Reviews: James Copeland & A Thought About Raya, Brenda Coultas & Red Noir, Karinne Keithley / Sara Jane Stoner & Lear
• Interview: Ten Questions for Cecilia Vicuña – By Ken L. Walker
• Poems: – Deanna Ferguson
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Brandon Brown & Chapbook Roundup, Tim Peterson & Jennifer Moxley, David Perry & Steve Carey, Julian Brolasky & Nathanaël (Nathalie) Stephens, Bill Mohr & Alan Bernheimer, Douglas Piccinnini & Graham Foust, Erica Kaufman & Magdalena Zurawski, Maxwell Heller & The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theatre, Robert Dewhurst & Bruce Boone
• Visuals: Art – Alison Kuo
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#222 February 2010/March 2010

• Letters/Announcements
• Essay:A Werldly Country: Ilse Aichinger’s Prose Poems – By Uljana Wolf
• Prose: Bad Words and Hemlin – By Ilse Aichinger, Trans. Uljana Wolf & Christian Hawkey
• Interview: A Conversation with Harryette Mullen – By Barbara Henning
• Poem: from The Wrong Book – By Nathaniel Otting
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Edmund Berrigan & Chapbook Roundup, Margarita Shalina & Marjorie Perloff / Craig Dworkin, Laura Hinton & Emma Bee Bernstein / Nona Willis Aronowitz, Stan Mir & Michael Gizzi, Jill Magi & M. Nourbse Philip, Thom Donovan & Rachel Zolf
• Visuals: Art – Stacie Johnson
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#221 December 2009/January 2010

• Letters/Announcements
• With Respect: Remembering Jim Carroll – By Anne Waldman, Anselm Berrigan, Lenny Kaye, Bill Berkson
• Excerpt from The Petting Zoo – By Jim Carroll
• Conversation: On The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest – By Tom Orange & Catherine Wagner
• Poem: Severe Yellow Line – By Sandra Doller
• Interview: 10 Questions for Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers – By Erica Kaufman
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Emily Critchley & Lisa Robertson, Lucy Ives & Fanny Howe, Jane Sprague & Caconrad, Chris Martin & Laura Solomon, Gina Myers & Chapbook Roundup, Chris McCreary & Norma Cole, Stephen Motika & Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Visuals: Art – Paul Killebrew
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#220 October 2009/November 2009

• Letters/Announcements
• With Respect: Remembering Robin Blaser – By Meredith Quartermain
• Essay: The Text in and of Performance – By John Beer
• Poem from Phil – Jacqueline Waters
• Interview: 10 Questions for Alan Bernheimer – By Stephanie Young
• Calendar
• Book Reviews: Shonni Enelow & Rodrigo Toscano, Miles Champion & Ian Hamilton Finlay, Geoffrey Olsen & Chapbook Roundup, Kaplan Harris & Borders, Edited by Susanne Christensen/Audun Lindholm, Paolo Javier & Filip Marinovich, Paul Killebrew & Eric Baus, Joanna Fuhrman & Rachel Loden
• Visuals: Cover Art – Mary L. Chan
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#219 April-June 2009

• Announcements
• A Tribute to George Schneeman
• An Interview with Eileen Myles – By Greg Fuchs
• Events at The Poetry Project
• Poems by Steve Carey – With An Introduction By Maureen Owen
• Book Reviews: Barbara Guest, Simon Pettet, Bernadette Mayer, Fred Moten, Kit Robinson, Prageeta Sharma, Percival Everett, Charles North
• Visuals: Cover Art – KB Jones, Calendar Art – Jim Behrle
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#218 February 2009/March 2009

• Announcements
• Writing Workshops
• Remembering Hanon Reznikov
• An Interview With Ugly Duckling Presse – Conducted by Kyle Schlesinger
• Beneficial Trauma: The Work of Etel Adnan – By Stacy Szymaszek
• Events at The Poetry Project
• Book Reviews: Alice Notley, Lewis Warsh, Craig Santos Perez, Anne Tardos, Sharon Mesmer, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Kevin Davies, Roberto Tejada, Micah Ballard, Abigail Child, Lila Zemborain, Valentina Saracini
• Visuals: Cover Art – Kiki Smith, Calendar Art – Jim Behrle
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#217 December 2008/January 2009

• Announcements
• Reading Reports
• I Love My Love With a Capital Z: Helen Adam, Kristin Prevallet and Lee Ann Brown in Conversation
• Poems by Karen Weiser – With an Introduction by Stephanie Young
• Book Reviews: Brett Evans & Frank Sherlock, Rob Halpern, Marcella Durand, Lisa Jarnot, Sesshu Foster, Dana Ward, Maxine Gadd, Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, George Stanley, George Albon, Laura Moriarty, Daniel Comiskey & C.E. Putnam
• Visuals: Cover Art: Beka Goedde, Calendar Art: Jim Behrle
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#216 October/November 2008

• Announcements
• Remembering Mahmoud Darwish & Jonathan Williams
• Lorenzo Thomas, American by Dale Smith
• Poem by Tim Dlugos – With an Introduction by David Trinidad
• Book Reviews: Tisa Bryant, Anselm Hollo, Arecelis Girmay, Edmund Berrigan, Jay Wright, John Godfrey, Island of My Hunger: Cuban Poetry Today, Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry
• Visuals: Cover Art: Will Yackulic
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#215 April/May 2008

• Announcements
• Remembering Michael Goldberg
• To Do Exactly That, Right Now: The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen by Alice Notley
• The Poetry Project Archives — A Fireside Chat with the Director of The Poetry Project
• Poems by Betsy Fagin — With an introduction by Dana Ward
• Book Reviews: Edwin Torres, Stephanie Gray, Greg Fuchs, Susan Landers, Stephen Ratcliffe, Nick Piombino, John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse, Chris Martin
• Visuals: Cover Art: Erica Svec
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#214 February/March 2008

• Announcements
• Reading Reports
• Anne Tardos’s Elegant Software
• Poems by John Godfrey
• Book Reviews: Renee Gladman, Ron Silliman, Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern And Contemporary Poetry, Brenda Coultas, Julie Patton, Ron Padgett, Laura Elrick, Helen Adam, David Trinidad
• Visuals: Cover Art: Jonathan Allen
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#213 December 2007/January 2008

• Announcements
• Reading Reports
• Interview: Arlo Quint Sits Down with Ted Greenwald
• Toward An Ethic of Freedom: Some Poems by Hoa Nguyen
• Book Reviews: Joanne Kyger, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Tim Atkins, Barbara Henning, Ara Shirinyan, Benjamin Friedlander, Lewis MacAdams, Eileen Myles, Ivan Blatny, Joseph Lease
• Visuals: Cover Art: Zachary Wollard
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#212 October/November 2007

• Announcements
• Remembering Sekou Sundiata
• In Conversation: A Chat Between Brenda Coultas and Akilah Oliver
• In Search of the Goldmouth Poets: Susie Timmons
• We Mimic the Poisonings: A Brief Introduction to the Poetry of Ed Roberson
• Book Reviews: Bill Berkson, Heriberto Yépez, Elaine Equi, Hannah Weiner, James Thomas Stevens, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, Susan Briante, Four From Japan, Thomas Weatherly
• Visuals: Cover Art: Marc Andre Robinson
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#211 April/June 2007

• Announcements
• From The Past 12, 33, 34 Years Ago In The Newsletter
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Brooklyn, The Catskills, Hattiesburg, Iran, Granada, Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Russia, Tangier, Tokyo, Vancouver, Washington DC
• The Director Looks Around A Conversation With Outgoing Artistic Director Anselm Berrigan
• Knowing Is Not Enough An Interview With John Trudell
• Book Reviews: Kimberly Lyons, Chuck Stebelton, Alice Notley, Andrew Epstein, Charles Bernstein, Sparrow Up Is Up, But So Is Down
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#210 February/March 2007

• Announcements
• Brad Will 1970-2006
• Kari Edwards 1954-2006
• From The Past 13, 18, 32, 33, 34 Years Ago In The Newsletter
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Austin, Boston, Buffalo, The Catskills, Denver, El Paso, Fargo, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Marfa, Mexico City, Tangier, Vancouver, Washington DC
• Common Interests, Uncommon Hope A Conversation With Howard Zinn
• Robin Blaser’s Cosmic Companionship Of The Real
• Charles Bernstein’s Afterword To The Holy Forest: Collected Poems Of Robin Blaser
• Book Reviews: Amanda Nadelberg, Joe Elliot, Padscha Tuntha-Obas, Ed Roberson, Lytle Shaw, Samih Al Qasim, Valerie Fox, Anne Porter, Robert Creeley
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#209 December 2006/January 2007

• Announcements
• From The Past 6, 12, 21, 26 Years Ago In The Newsletter
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, The Bay Area, Brooklyn, The Catskills, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Providence, Seattle, Tucson, The Twin Cities
• Why Most Poetry Is So Boring, Again By Amiri Baraka
• The Politics Of “Politics” A Conversation With Heretical Texts Editor Bill Marsh
• Book Reviews: Tom Clark, Robert Fitterman & Dirk Rowntree, Nathaniel Mackey, E. Tracy Grinnell, Benjamin Hollander, Gloria Frym, Jen Benka, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Maureen Owen
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#208 October/November 2006

• Announcements
• From The Past 33, 32, 20, 10 & 9 Years Ago In The Newsletter
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Brooklyn, The Catskills, Chicago, England, Germany, Indiana, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Portland, Spain, Washington DC
• On This Tortured But Beautiful Planet A Conversation With Quincy Troupe & Victor Hernandez Cruz
• Book Reviews: Pablo Javier, Juliana Spahr, Brenda Hillman, Alice Notley, Simon Pettet, Patricia Spears Jones,
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#207 April/May 2006

• Announcements
• Remembering Barbara Guest by Ann Lauterbach
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Brooklyn, The Catskills, Chicago, Milwaukee, Petaluma, Philadelphia, Seattle, Thailand, The Twin Cities
• State Of New Orleans: Post-Katrina By Megan Burns
• Maggie Nelson & Wayne Koestenbaum In Conversation
• Joe Elliot Vs. The Thai Action Team
• Book Reviews: Kenneth Koch, Kamau Brathwaite, Stacy Szymaszek, Reed Bye, Aaron Kunin, Etel Adnan
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#206 February/March 2006

• Announcements
• From The Director
• New Year’s Thank Yous
• From The Editor
• An Appreciation Of Our Token
• Farewell Tory Dent
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, The Catskills, Italy, Ithaca, Petaluma, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, Slovakia, Spain, The Twin Cities
• The Noam Chomsky Interview [Part 2] With Brendan Lorber
• The Romantic-Modern Lyric: Poetry For The Non-Poet By Dale Smith
• Book Reviews: Ted Berrigan, Emily Xyz, Julie Carr, Carla Harryman, Mary Burger, Tyehimba Jess
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#205 December 2005/January 2006

• Announcements
• From The Director
• W.H. Auden Tuna Mold To Perform At New Years
• From The Editor
• From The Readers
• Katrina Gratitude
• Props To Katz
• World News Breaking Reports Just In From: Albany, Austin, Boston, Buffalo, Florence, Ithaca, LA, Petaluma, Philadelphia, The Twin Cities, The Catskills
• New Years Marathon The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Writer: Marathoning With Todd Colby
• From The Past 12, 15, 31, 34 Years Ago In The Newsletter
• The Noam Chomsky Interview [Part 1] With Brendan Lorber
• Olsonnow With Michael Kelleher & Ammiel Alcalay
• Book Reviews: Barbara Guest, Eleni Sikelianos, Jeni Olin, Brandon Downing, Michael Ives
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