* Review by Steven Lansky at City Beat (also includes a brief interview). Review by J. Peter Moore at Arch Journal For more on On Spec, visit the book’s main page at the Omnidawn website. *
ANNOUNCEMENTS!
* FOR THOSE IN THE DALLAS, TX AREA Prick of the Spindle, an online journal of the literary arts, hosts its first poetry/short fiction reading in Dallas, TX Saturday, July 12 at 1 p.m. It’s not too late to sign…
Poetry: Brenda Iijima
* SHORN OF ITS HABITAT as if a final descent HABITUATION RABBIT the primeval swamp the common herd the crowded giant suns HOVERS THE NORM the many questions posed the many species written off the most helpful people in…
Video: Donald Revell plus A NEW CONTEST!
* Embedded is a 7-minute video of Donald Revell reading from his translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell. This reading (9/20/07), hosted by Steve Dickison and the San Francisco State Poetry Center in conjunction with Omnidawn, was held…
Poetry: Nick Moudry
* Still-life I think love is not this flower.You sing at night through our teeth.Our mouths do not move. If I wanta pumpkin, I will have a pumpkin. It is raining. You are not wetbecause you are inside. Looking upyou…
READING TONIGHT: AARON SHURIN in BERKELEY
* * Come to Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley tonight at 7:30 to celebrate the release of Aaron Shurin’s new book KING OF SHADOWS, just out from City Lights. From the City Lights Book Page: King of Shadows is a collection…