http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/rss.xml Recent poems, reviews and articles, and fresh Noticeboard news items from "Jacket" magazine, a free Internet-only literary magazine published three times a year by John Tranter and Pam Brown in Sydney, Australia. Photo: a glimpse of our staff, busy gathering material: from a makeshift hut in the Australian Outback, researcher Dorothy Nudgebundle places a long-distance call to a certain number in Brooklyn...en-us Copyright Jacket magazine 2008 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:00 GMT Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:00 GMT20 http://jacketmagazine.com/=pix/rss-phone-lady.jpg http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/rss.xml Phone lady 144 112 http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php Kevin Davies is a petite bourgeois lyric poet who lives in Brooklyn. His objectively reactionary verses are gathered in The Golden Age of Paraphernalia (just out from Edge), Comp. (2000, also from Edge), and Pause Button (Tsunami Editions, 1992; reissued online by the haute bourgeois /ubu editions). Nada Gordon is the author of four poetry books: Folly, V. Imp., Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, foreign bodie and, with Gary Sullivan, an e-pistolary techno-romantic non-fiction novel, Swoon. She practices poetry as deep entertainment and is a proud member of the Flarflist Collective. The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York City 10003, Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. For more info call 212-674-0910. http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#davies Fri, 02 May 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php Thomas Fink's fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in March, 2008. He has authored two books of criticism, including A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001), and he is the co-editor of Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. "Yinglish Strophes IX" appears in The Best American Poetry 2007, edited by Heather McHugh and David Lehman. Fink's paintings hang in various collections. Eléna Rivera is the author of Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), and an on-line chapbook, In Respect of Distance (www.beardofbees.com). Recent poems appear in The Poker, www.tarpaulinsky.com, the Poetry Salzburg Review, The Solitary Plover, and the chaplet When the Shadow Filled Window Opens (WinteRed Press, 2007). She was recently awarded the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald's book-length poem Secrets of the Breath is forthcoming from Burning Deck Press. The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York City 10003, Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. For more info call 212-674-0910. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#pp1 Fri, 09 May 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php Tisa Bryant, Stefania Iryne Marthakis and Joe Robitaille will represent the Poetry Project in the Word for Word Poetry series, held seasonally in the Bryant Park Reading Room. Please join us in the park! Tisa Bryant's first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. She is also the author of a chapbook, Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000), a collage Barbados genealogy, a Passover seder and a film by Yvonne Rainer. She is currently wrapping up [the curator], a cinematic novella, and is laying the grounds for a historical Caribbean novel, Spectral. She teaches at St. John's University in Queens, lives in Brooklyn, and is a founding editor/publisher of the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project. Stefania Iryne Marthakis received her BA in poetry and theatre from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University. She interned at The Poetry Project from 2005 to 2007. Some of her work can be found in New American Writing, Bombay Gin and The Recluse. Joe Robitaille is from Buffalo, NY and is currently teaching as an adjunct at Brooklyn College. He has recently had work published in the Brooklyn Review, The Diagram, HAMMERED, Verse Daily and The Thousand Journals Project. Joe is also the founder and sole employee of Renaissance Ugly Studios. He is co-editor/founder of the magazine They Are Flying Planes, which will be publishing a one poem book by Michael Basinski out this June. He lives in Sunset Park, happily. The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York City 10003, Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. For more info call 212-674-0910. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#pp2 Fri, 09 May 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php Jill Magi, writer and visual artist, is the author of Torchwood (Shearsman 2008), Threads (Futurepoem 2007), and Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2005). Her most recent projects of text and image include "SLOT/The Exhibitionary Complex", an interrogation of memorials, museums, and monuments; "Compass and Hem", a meditation on the body and social visibility/invisibility; and "Cadastral Map/The Meander", a work about the American pastoral, and the specific histories of land use and public policy in Kentucky, New Jersey, and Vermont. She runs Sona Books. Kyle Schlesinger's most recent book is Hello Helicopter and The Pink is forthcoming from Kenning Editions. He is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and the editor of Mimeo Mimeo. He lives in Brooklyn. The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York City 10003, Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. For more info call 212-674-0910. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#pp3 Fri, 09 May 2008 03:00:00 GMT http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php Please join us for our 3rd biennial Silent Art Auction Fundraiser! View work from established and emerging visual artists. Enjoy live performances and readings at the top of each hour on the Sanctuary stage. Shop for rare and signed books and printed matter. Purvey the activity from the (free) wine bar on the balcony, then outbid your friends and fellow enthusiasts on your favorite works of art. If you can't make the party, please contact us at 212-674-0910 for information on proxy bidding. Every dollar earned will benefit the continuance of the Poetry Project! Performances by Richard Hell; Jeni Olin; Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers; Franklin Bruno; Legends (Elizabeth Reddin, Raquel Vogl and James Loman) and more t.b.a. Participating artists and writers include: Kiki Smith, Yoko Ono, Anne Tardos, Yvonne Jacquette, Suzan Frecon, Pamela Lawton, Emilie Clark, Etel Adnan, Susan Bee, Star Black, Rackstraw Downes, Simone Fattal, Vincent Katz, Vivien Bittencourt, Beka Goedde, Brenda Iijima, George Schneeman, Anne Waldman, Erica Svec, Christopher Warrington, Zach Wollard, Bill Berkson, Andrei Codrescu, Maureen Owen, Michael Friedman, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, Stephen Rosenthal, Reg E. Gaines, Robert Creeley, James Franklin, Richard Hell, Emily XYZ, Ted Greenwald, Hal Saulson, Mimi Gross, Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Ken Mikolowski, Ron Padgett, Ed Ruscha, Will Yackulic, Jim Dine, Fielding Dawson, Donna Brook, Simon Pettet, Steve Carey, May Pang, Henry Edwards, Terry Southern, Michael Cooper, Mick Rock, Baron Wolman, Lee Friedlander, Eve Babitz, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Clark Coolidge, Alice Notley, Lewis Warsh, Bernadette Mayer, Peter Schjeldahl, Richard O'Russa, David Abel, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Greg Fuchs, Alison Collins, Nate Ethier, KB Jones, Andrew Mister, Elizabeth Zechel, Patricia Spears Jones, Hannah Weiner, Ted Berrigan and Fairfield Porter, Alfred Leslie, Justin Theroux, Marc Andre Robinson, Veselovsky Pitts, Geoffrey Hendricks, Elizabeth Robinson and Fran Herndon, Karl Klingbiel, Oren Slor, Nick Piombino, Jack Collom, Erica Wessmann, Danny Fields, Kate Simon, Alice Notley, Phong Bui, Basil King, Elizabeth Castagna and Edwin Torres, Debra Jenks, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Felver, Tony Fitzpatrick, Hank O'Neal, and more t.b.a. PLUS: bid on a tarot reading with CAConrad, bid to compose a collaborative poem with Ted Greenwald, bid on a hypnosis session with Maggie Dubris, and more otherworldly experiences! The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York City 10003, Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. For more info call 212-674-0910. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#PP4 Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php Fundraiser: Please join us for our 3rd biennial Silent Art Auction Fundraiser! View work from established and emerging visual artists. Enjoy live performances and readings at the top of each hour on the Sanctuary stage. Shop for rare and signed books and printed matter. Purvey the activity from the cash bar on the balcony, then outbid your friends and fellow enthusiasts on your favorite works of art. The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue, New York City 10003, Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. For more info call 212-674-0910. http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#fundraiser Fri, 02 May 2008 03:00:00 GMT http://www.raintaxi.com/ Featuring an interview with Chip Kidd -- plus electrifying pieces on new books by Alice Notley, Peter Hoeg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Frederik Peeters, and more! http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#raintaxispring Sun, 04 May 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/ From editor Mark Young: It is with both pleasure and sorrow that I announce the going live of issue nine of Otoliths. The pleasure is because this issue marks the beginning of *Otoliths*' third year, and once again contains a great variety of text and visual work. The sorrow is because Rochelle Ratner, a frequent contributor to this journal, passed away on March 31st. I'd like to dedicate this issue, in which she has new poems, to her. In this issue are Rochelle Ratner, harry k stammer, Adam Fieled, Bill Drennan, David-Baptiste Chirot, Joel Chace, Michael Farrell, Reed Altemus, Andrew Lundwall, Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy, William Doreski, Duane Locke, Stu Hatton, Joe Balaz, Jeff Harrison, Raymond Farr, Esa M"akij"arvi, Bobbi Lurie, Julian Jason Haladyn, Simon Perchik, Suzanne Grazyna, Eileen R. Tabios, Diana Magall`on and Jeff Crouch, Jeff Crouch and Matina L. Stamatakis, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Glenn R. Frantz, Angela Genusa, Randy Thurman, Philip Byron Oakes, Mark Cunningham, Geof Huth, Andrew Topel and Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett and Luigino Solamito and Sheila E. Murphy, John M. Bennett and Scott MacLeod, Scott MacLeod, Robert Gauldie, Adam Strauss, Marcia Arrieta, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, William Allegrezza, Ernesto Priego, Ed Schenk, Irving Weiss, Mary Kasimor, Christopher Major, Derek Owens, Paul Siegell, Daniel f Bradley, Daniel Morris, Steve Timm, Mary Ellen Derwis, Thomas Fink, Louise Landes Levi, Toni Simon, Martin Edmond and Kirsten Kaschock. http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#otoliths9 Thu, 01 May 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://www.coconutpoetry.org/ Coconut 12 - featuring new poems and collaborations by David Trinidad, Jeffery Conway, Gillian McCain, Reb Livingston, Chelsey Minnis, Elizabeth Treadwell, Christopher Salerno, Lauren Spohrer, Terita Heath-Wlaz, Tyler Carter, Elisa Gabbert, Michael Ball, Brenda Iijima, Sam Truitt, Jessica Piazza, Claire Hero, Matthew Zapruder, James Sanders, Linnea Ogden, Emily Kendal Frey, KC Trommer, Gina Myers, and Seth Landman http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#coconut Thu, 01 May 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-8195-6872-4.html Spanning over thirty years, the letters in A WILD PERFECTION capture the passion, wit, and sensitivity of this great American poet. There are moving letters to fellow poets Donald Hall, Theodore Roethke, Galway Kinnell, James Dickey, Mary Oliver, Robert Bly, and others, that shed light on subjects, poetic and personal, from his creative process to his struggles with depression and illness. Wesleyan University Press. http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#jameswright Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:00:00 GMT http://www.counterpunch.org/poems03292008.html Six new translations of Ko Un's poems appear in two recent issues of *Counterpunch* http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#koun Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://www.LonghousePoetry.com/longhouse2008.html New from Longhouse: Mariah Fox, Hoa Nguyen, Dale Smith, Bob Arnold, Cid Corman: Fresh New Titles Now Available: Poetry Bookshop and More! available at Bob and Susan Arnold, Longhouse, Publishers and Booksellers, 1604 River Road, Guilford, Vermont 05301 USA http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#longhouse Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://nigelbeale.com/?p=797 Nigel Beale says: In honour of Poetry Month, here is my interview with Canadian poet, critic and more recently, political writer, David Solway. We first discuss what constitutes a great poem in the context of "political" and other agendas that some poets incorporate into their work. According to Solway, great poems consist of authentic, incontestable, memorable language, with vivid power, lapidary quality and prodigious rhetorical flow, which takes time, education, reflection and maturity to work itself into themes of human importance; synoptic views of the complexity of human life; a confluence of eloquent language and major subject which has something important to say and which will resonate with contemporary and future generations. http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#beale Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://jacketmagazine.com/00/noticeboard.shtml#nancybook From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#nancybook Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.nationalpoetryfoundation.org/news/index.php/article/2007/10/15/poetry_of_the_1970s The National Poetry Foundation takes pleasure in announcing the next in our sequence of "decades" conferences, to be devoted to the poetry of the 1970s, American and international, and to be held from Wednesday to Sunday, June 11-15, 2008, on the flagship campus of the University of Maine System in Orono, Maine. Confirmed keynote poets include: Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Nicole Brossard, Clark Coolidge, Jayne Cortez, Ann Lauterbach, and Bernadette Mayer. The deadline for submission of proposals is March 31, 2008. On-line registration is available. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#orono Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/poetryandtrace/home.html Monash University, Melbourne, Australia -- 12 to 14 July, 2008 -- Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia -- Confirmed Keynote speakers: Susan Stewart, Joan Retallack, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Lionel Fogarty -- Convenors: Ann Vickery, Rose Lucas, John Hawke. The conference will be held across three days at the inspiring and central venue of the State Library of Victoria. It will commence with a welcome reception and poetry reading (open to the public) and offer three days of concurrent academic papers and plenary sessions designed around key issues to draw all delegates, both practitioners and academics, into the liveliness of shared debate.A refereed publication of conference proceedings consisting of both scholarly and creative work is planned. http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/rss.xml#monash Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml After a long day spent vainly scanning the gestures of the sidewalk beau monde for significance, the footsore flaneur looks forward to a beaker of Chateau Baron Munchausen "Bateau Ivre" '68 in the soothing gloom of the Dingo Bar, an early Miles Davis track cooling the atmosphere, where he can leaf through the pages of the latest Jacket magazine undisturbed! http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/rss.xml#jacket-general Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Bar http://jacketmagazine.com/rss/feed.rss#dingobar Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:59:59 GMT