Richard waited by the amusement arcade at the bottom of Oldham Street.The shirt he was wearing was his favourite.A bus pulled in at the stop.People disembarked and boarded.Shoppers hurried by.The shirt he was wearing was black with grey checks.Richard had showered carefully before leaving the house.The birthday party had been fun.Listening to records and dan […]

Despite snow there were around thirty people at The Old Abbey Inn for the latest Other Room reading on Wednesday. The readers were Steven Waling, Holly Pester and Rob Holloway. To be honest I found my attention wandering a lot throughout the evening so my account will be pretty unreliable. That wasn't the poets' fault, it's just been a hazy ki […]

Friday 12th February, 7.30pm Francesca Lisette Stephen Rodefer The Cambridge Reading Series (CRS) is a new cycle of poetry readings taking place at the Faculty of English in Cambridge. Dialogic in form and international in scope, this dynamic series breaks with the usual format. In addition to reading their own work, poets will also read the work of another […]

Marton's response to Reykjavik makes me think that unless you were in Iceland in 2007 you probably haven't seen the poem's own visual manifestation in the Safn Museum. So here is what it looked like: (Dan Flavin and Roni Horn in the background)

I recently gave a reading at The Other Room. This was Matt Dalby's review of my performance:Despite snow there were around thirty people at The Old Abbey Inn for the latestOther Room reading on Wednesday. The readers were Steven Waling, Holly Pesterand Rob Holloway. To be honest I found my attention wandering a lot throughoutthe evening so my account wi […]

Jim Carroll Memorial Reading Wednesday @ St. Marks 2nd Ave & 10th St NYC 8:00 PM (Free) with Bill Berkson, Todd Colby, Anselm Berrigan, Richard Hell, Lenny Kaye, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman & more § Clayton Eshleman on the disaster at Lascaux § This is what a feminist [poet] looks like, forum no. 2 § Tribute to Leland Hickm […]

Jonathan Jones' Sticky Pages Press puts out tiny publications by the publisher himself. Most of these are minimalist poems, some of a verbo-visual character. After a few months' searching, I finally discovered my stash of his penultimate mailing of these poems to me. Each publication was quite beautiful, but the one I decided needed the most to be […]

Derek Beaulieu's Dusie/Default Chap reviewed at Tarpaulin Sky! Thanks Ross!