Craig Santos Perez (author of from unincorporated territory [saina], Omnidawn 2010) has been chosen to represent his Pacific home island of Guåhan (Guam) at Poetry Parnassus, a weeklong festival that will take place during the London 2012 Olympics. This event,…
Poetry: Amish Trivedi
Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed Having nowhere to go is the best place to be: I don’t care if crosswalk signals never let me pass or if rivers continue to flood. After all terrors, settled moments have left to…
Bay Area Lit Scene: RADAR Reading Series
Review by Turner Canty, Omnidawn Features Writer Who: Nate Lippens, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Miranda Mellis, Eileen Myles. Hosted by Michelle Tea What: RADAR’s Spring Extravaganza Where: San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St. (near Civic Center BART). When: March 8th…
Kiwao Nomura’s “Spectacle & Pigsty” wins 2012 Best Translated Book Award
THE 2012 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD WINNERS: WIESŁAW MYŚLIWSKI’S “STONE UPON STONE” AND KIWAO NOMURA’S “SPECTACLE & PIGSTY” The winning titles and translators of this year’s Best Translated Book Award were announced earlier this evening at McNally Jackson Books as…
Poetry: Joshua Corey
Sæglópur Gut of static hush the single voice venturesome and small signal to noise the toe-tap adjustment a Turner reality a Whistler’s frost of decadence filming whipped grays and blacks indicative of sea fog rushing the viewer’s 3D-glasses slack planked…
Rusty Morrison interviews Melissa Kwasny
one of the two co-editors of the anthology I GO TO THE RUINED PLACE: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights Co-editors of the anthology: Melissa Kwasny is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Nine…