Alvin Lucier’s Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music. is now available in paperback! Lucier’s new CD was recently reviewed by Robert Carl for Fanfare Magazine. Carl wrote: “Lucier has fruitfully pursued his passion for a uniquely personal form of research and experiment over the decades. He could have been a ‘one-hit wonder,’ but definitely was (and is) not. This is…
#tbt: Harvey Shapiro, “Monday”
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This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Harvey Shapiro’s “Monday,” from his 1988 collection National Cold Storage Company: New and Selected Poems. On September 30th, Wesleyan released Shapiro’s posthumous collection, A Momentary Glory: Last Poems, edited by Norman Finkelstein. Shapiro wrote honestly about life, love, sexuality, aging, and death. . . Monday Everybody thinks the past is real. The window…
The Strand to celebrate the last poems of Harvey Shapiro
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We are pleased to announce a new book by Harvey Shapiro, A Momentary Glory: Last Poems. A celebration of Shapiro’s work will occur on Tuesday, September 30, at 7:30 PM, in the Rare Book Room of The Strand Book Store (828 Broadway at 12th Street, NYC). Read more here. The distinguished poet Harvey Shapiro passed away on…
#tbt: Frances Chung, “For Li Po”
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This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Frances Chung’s “For Li Po” from Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems of Francis Chung (2000). . For Li Po they read your poem still at the New School in Pound’s translation at West Lake your spirit mingles with Su Tung Po’s a willow path is named for you…
#tbt: Peter Gizzi, “Still Life with Automobile”
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This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Peter Gizzi’s “Still Life with Automobile,” originally published in Periplum, and Other Poems. The poem is also found in Gizzi’s newest book In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011. . Still Life with Automobile He was going to take it to the next town. Though the park was empty the pond bristled…
#tbt: John Ashbery, “White Roses”
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This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is John Ashbery’s “White Roses” from The Tennis Court Oath (1977). WHITE ROSES The worst side of it all— The white sunlight on the polished floor— Pressed into service, And then the window closed And the night ends and begins again. Her face goes green, her eyes are green; In…
“The Fiddlehead’s” retrospective on Rae Armantrout
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The Fiddlehead recognized Wesleyan author Rae Armantrout in a retrospective found in their Summer 2014 issue (No. 260). You will find some new poems in the issue. Below is the introduction, by Ross Leckie. Wesleyan will release a new volume by Armantrout, Itself, in Spring 2015. From The Fiddlehead: The Poetry of Rae Armantrout What is the poetry of everyday…
#tbt: M. NourbeSe Philip, “Clues”
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. This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is “Clues,” from Philip’s 1993 book She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (The Women’s Press Ltd). Wesleyan University Press will re-issue the book next year, with a new introduction from Evie Shockley, author of the new black. . Clues She gone—gone to where and don’t know looking for me…
#tbt, Brenda Coultas, and the Subterranean Poetry Festival
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Brenda Coultas has been keeping busy after the release of her latest book, The Tatters! On Sunday, August 24th, she will be reading in the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, New York, as part of the 24th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival. . . This week’s TBT selection is “Dream Life in a case of Transvestism,” from Coultas’s…
Wesleyan science fiction authors recognized
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Congratulations to Dr. Arthur B. Evans on receiving the Prix Cyrano, or Cyrano Prize! Named after the early French science fiction writer Cyrano de Bergerac, the prize is given for lifetime achievements in promoting French science fiction. The award was presented at the 41st annual French National Science Fiction Convention, NEMO 2014, in Amiens, France. …
