Dead Wasp Forum

Matt Dalby has started a forum.

Otoliths: Poet-Editors

43 Poet-Editors, curated and introduced by Eileen R. Tabios, featuring:

• William Allegrezza
• Ivy Alvarez
• Anny Ballardini
• Joi Barrios
• John Bloomberg-Rissman
• Ana Božičević
• Garrett Caples
• Brian Clements
• Bruce Covey
• Del Ray Cross
• Patrick James Dunagan
• Elaine Equi
• Adam Fieled
• Thomas Fink
• Luis H. Francia
• Geoffrey Gatza
• Tim Gaze
• Crg Hill
• Aileen Ibardaloza
• Vincent Katz
• Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
• Burt Kimmelman
• Mark Lamoureux
• Amanda Laughtland
• Timothy Liu
• Dana Teen Lomax
• Joey Madia
• Sandy McIntosh
• Didi Menendez
• Lars Palm
• Guillermo Parra
• Ernesto Priego
• Sam Rasnake
• Barbara Jane Reyes
• Christopher Rizzo
• Patrick Rosal
• Sarah Rosenthal
• Susan M. Schultz
• Logan Ryan Smith
• Jill Stengel
• Fiona Sze-Lorrain
• Jean Vengua
• Mark Young

Joseph Walton's Election Message

Thanks to everyone who watched Joseph Walton's Election Message (J-WEM). If all has gone to plan a recording will be available soon.

Update on Thursday 29 April, 2010 by Openned

For those who missed the broadcast, you can watch a recording of it here.

On Infinite Difference

The attention given "innovative" poetries by mainstream press on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years is impressive but I fear this attention may be functioning as a sort of kettling tactic that effectively neutralizes or cordons these poetries off, reducing them to carnival status and displaying them publicly on a sort of vaudeville stage way off Broadway. Rae Armantrout got a Pulitzer. Good times. The TLS addresses British poetries beyond the pale of the larger publishing industry once and again. Grand. But these gestures often come off as a weirdly condescending pat on the head or a strategy engineered to rope in readers located beyond the main.

Read the rest at damn the caesars.

The iPad, the Kindle and the future of books

Good overview from the New Yorker of how large-scale publishing is dealing with the rise of the eBook.

First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival Photos

More great photos, this time from Marianne Morris of that thing that goodness thing that happened in Sussex.

post_moot 2010 Liveblogging

Liveblogging from post_moot longly and shortly. Good stuff.

Rahaha's Photostream

Great photos from a diverse range of events, places. Bookmark it, RSS it, follow it.

Counting Backwards

Counting Backwards is a new series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months. Counting Backwards takes place at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. The first event is on Thursday 3 June 2010.

Counting Backwards takes as it’s starting point contemporary text-sound practices that question semantics and received traditions and emphasise performability.

The focus is on the exploration of new or unconventional techniques.

A new blog and event series run by Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher.

Update on Friday 23 April, 2010 by Openned

Cleaves Journal Issue 2

Now online, featuring work from 63 contributors from:

• Berlin
• Brighton
• Cambridge
• Cork
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Iceland
• Leeds
• Lithuania
• London
• Moscow
• North West
• Paris
• Poland
• Romania
• Scotland
• South West
• Switzerland