Posts tagged "Introductions"
Introductions for Shonni Enelow and Steve Reinke
I’m thrilled to have Shonni Enelow and Steve Reinke here. Reading through their work this week, I got more and more excited by the ways in which it overlaps and differs and how interestingly it might resonate in this room tonight. Both Enelow and Reinke are artist-writers, whose particular forms of engagement with the work [...]
Introductions for Hoa Nguyen & Jesse Seldess
Hoa Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta, raised in the DC area, and studied poetics in San Francisco. She is the author of eight books and chapbooks including Chinaberry (Fact Simile, 2010) and Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey, 2009). A new transplant to Toronto, ON, Nguyen curates a reading series, teaches creative writing, and reads [...]
Introductions for Charles North & Anne Waldman
Called by James Schuyler “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” Charles North is the author of nine books of poems, most recently Cadenza (2007) and Complete Lineups (2009); a book of essays on poets, artists, and critics, No Other Way; and collaborative works with artists and other poets. His newest collection, What It Is [...]
Introductions for Jamie Townsend & Laura Solomon
In Jamie Townsend’s work, hardly anything purports to be a window. Common language, snips of images, natural landscape, and cubicle ambience collapse into rich textures, often clipped into little relics, posed against one another. This is definitely the case in Matryoshka, one of his three chapbooks out this year, where sense is barely off the [...]
Introductions for Charles Bernstein & Maggie O’Sullivan
Charles Bernstein’s most recent publications are Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays & Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011), All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010, paperback 2011), Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Factory School, 2008); and Girly Man (Chicago Press, 2006). From 1978-1981 he co-edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine. In the [...]
Introductions for Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad
For those of you who celebrated Rosh Hashanah last night or had to watch baseball, here are my introductions for Anselm and David.
Anselm Berrigan’s newest book, Notes from Irrelevance, was just published by Wave Books. Free Cell and To Hell With Sleep were published in 2009. And Have a Good One was published in 2008. I’m [...]
Introduction for Miles Champion & Jennifer Moxley
Miles Champion’s books include Compositional Bonbons Placate, Sore Models, Three Bell Zero and How to Laugh (forthcoming from Adventures in Poetry). Providence, an artist’s book in collaboration with Jane South, was published by Sienese Shredder Editions in 2008. His recent writing appears in American Book Review, Critical Quarterly, Mimeo Mimeo, PN Review and The Poetry [...]
Introductions for Norman Fischer & Rae Armantrout – 3/17/10
Norman Fischer is a zen priest. He is a former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, and the founder and teacher for the Everyday Zen Foundation His zen comrade and poetic daddy, Philip Whalen, compared his work to “a Baccarat crystal paperweight, a smooth clear ball of glass containing intricate designs in many brilliant [...]
Introductions for Stephanie Young & George Tysh
Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland. Her books of poetry are Picture Palace (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, 2008) and Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and her most recent editorial project is Deep Oakland.
I’m probably not the only person in this [...]
