short essay (on Ceravolo's Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky) by Charles North
For a short essay on Joe Ceravalo's Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky by Charles North, go here:https://jacket2.org/poems/wild-provoke-endurance-sky
View ArticleCIRCUMCONTENTIVE POETRY (India and elsewhere in Begali)
For an essay "Adaptations in Bengali Poetry," on CIRCUMCONTENTIVE POETRY by Sarah Dowling, click below:https://jacket2.org/feature/adaptations-bengali-poetry
View Articleessay ("Closer to Everything: An Appreciation of Joseph Ceravolo) by Kimberly...
For an essay, "Closer to Everything: An Appreciation of Joseph Ceravolo," by Kimberly Lyons, click below:https://jacket2.org/article/closer-everything
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Gerhard Kofler
Gerhard Kofler (Italy/Austria)1949-2005Born in Bolzano, Italy in February 11, 1949, Gerhard Kofler was a German-language poet growing up among South Tyroleans, people from Trentino, Vienna and Napoli,...
View ArticleKamu Brathwaite reading from his own work
To hear a number poems read by the poet Kamu Brathwaite from his own work, click here:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kamau-brathwaite#about
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VORT (magazine)
VORT (magazine) (USA)Vort was a USA poetry magazine, borrowing part of the word “Vorticism,” for its title. Edited by Washington, D.C. book collector and editor, Barry Alpert, Vort lasted for nine...
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Jerzy Ficowski
Jerzy Ficowski [Poland]1924-2006Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski was born in Warsaw on October 4, 1924, dying in the same city in 2006. He was a major Polish poet and translator, from the Yiddish, Russian,...
View Articleessay "The Rhythms of the 'Language' Poets (on works by Charles Bernstein and...
Beginning with my 1980 essay on Charles Bernstein’s Controlling Interests (see My Year 2004: Under Our Skin), I focused a number of essays and reviews on what was then referred to as “Language”...
View Articleessay-review "Wordscape Artists" (on Charles Bernstein, Bruce Andrews, and...
WORDSCAPE ARTISTSby Douglas Messerli Charles Bernstein Controlling Interests (New York: Roof Books, 1980)Bruce Andrews Wobbling (New York: Roof Books, 1981)Charles Bernstein Stigma (Barrytown, New...
View Articleinterview "The Future of Poetry Publishing" by Jeffrey Slide with Douglas...
After an intelligent summary of Astley’s essay on his blog, Argotist editor Jeffrey Slide invited several poetry publishers in the UK and US to respond to questions related to some of the current...
View Articleessay response "Giving Poetry 'Back to People'" (a response to Neil Asstley's...
GIVING POETRY “BACK TO PEOPLE”by Douglas Messerli Written in response to Neil Astley's essay, “Give Poetry back to people,” New Statesman, October 23, 2006Beyond my annual assessments of the poetry...
View Articlereview "A Simplicity of Saying" (on Campert's This Happened Everywhere) by...
A SIMPLICITY OF SAYINGby Douglas Messerli Remco Campert This Happened Everywhere: Selected Poems, translated from the Dutch by Manfred Wolf (San Francisco: Androgyne Books, 1997)Of the major Dutch...
View Articleessay "Between: The Art of Collaboration" by Douglas Messerli
Between: The Art of Collaborationby Douglas Messerli In the 2008 volume of my ongoing cultural memoirs, devoted to what I have described as “In the Gap,” I have found myself using time and again in...
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review "Sparse Song Dark Thread" (on Claus' Greetings) by Douglas Messerli
SPARSE SONG DARK THREADby Douglas MesserliSoon after having finished the review of Hugo Claus’ Desire and having put the Project for Innovative Poetry anthology of the Dutch Fifiters—of whom Claus was...
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna [Italy]1906-1977Born in Perugia on July 12, 1906, Sandro Penna lived together with his father after his divorce from Penna’s mother until 1929, taking up residence in Rome until the end of...
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essay-review "Pretending Swagger" (on Godfrey's City of Corners) by Douglas...
PRETENDING SWAGGER John Godfrey City of Corners (Seattle: Wave Books, 2008)New York City poet John Godfrey has often been called “the poet of the streets,” which, he explained in a recent reading at...
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I NOVISSIMI (The New Ones) (Italy)
I NOVISSIMI (The New Ones) (Italy)The I Novissimi was a group of Italian poets writing in the 1950s who coalesced around the anthology I Novissimi: Poesie per gli anni ’60, published originally by...
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AT THE EDGE OF THE CONTINENTby Douglas Messerli Ko Un, a reading from his poetry, University of California, Los Angeles, April 22, 2010A cocktail party and reading by Ko Un at the home Hyon Chough in...
View Articleessay "At the Edge of the Continent" (on Ko Un's visit to Los Angeles) by...
AT THE EDGE OF THE CONTINENTby Douglas Messerli Ko Un, a reading from his poetry, University of California, Los Angeles, April 22, 2010A cocktail party and reading by Ko Un at the home Hyon Chough in...
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Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop [USA]1911-1979 Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, spending her early years in Great Village, Nova Scotia with her mother’s grandparents. Bishop was only...
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