This talk was originally delivered as part of the panel titled “Environmental Dreamscapes and the Heedless Sublime” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Nathan Brown, Evelyn Reilly, and Brian Teare.
Category: Essays
New York Lit Scene: CUNY Chapfest
Chapbooks value the personal over the commercial and the hand-made over the mass-produced. They are the material outcroppings of immaterial friendships, exchanges, and performances, the byproducts of a widely-dispersed but tightly-knit community of writers and artists for whom collaboration and…
Evelyn Reilly: “Environmental Dreamscapes and Ecopoetic Grief”
This talk was originally delivered, in slightly shortened form, as part of the panel titled “Environmental Dreamscapes and the Heedless Sublime” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Jed Rasula, Brian Teare, and Nathan Brown.
Bay Area Lit Scene: Featherboard Writing Series
Review by Pepper Luboff, Omnidawn feature writer Who: Evan Karp, erica lewis, and Gloria Frym What: Featherboard Writing Series, a text-based art event When: Reading at 5 p.m. on May 4, 2013 (recurs monthly); A Trapped in Your Mind Feeling…
Tyrone Williams: “Outsider Ecopoetics: Notes on a Problem”
This essay was presented at the Conference on EcoPoetics, February 22-24, 2013 in Berkeley, California, as part of the panel titled “The Book, Ecopoetic Instrument.” “All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book. It terrifies me to think…
Chicago Lit Scene: The Dollhouse Reading Series
Review by Todd McCarty, Chicago Correspondent What: The Dollhouse Reading Series Who: Todd McCarty, Roger Reeves, Sandra Simonds, and Kyle McCord Where: 2265 W. Leland Ave, #1, Chicago, IL 60625 When: Saturday, February 16, 2013 (For this monthly series, doors…
Featured Essay: Jack Collom, “S w a m p F o r m a l i s m”
Our special three-part series on the work of Jack Collom concludes with an essay and poem from his latest book, Second Nature, now available from Instance Press. We would once again like to thank Elizabeth Robinson for sharing Jack’s work…
Jaime Robles: “Brenda Coultas: On The Transmigration of Objects”
Jaime Robles’ essay on Brenda Coultas is part of a collection of essays currently being edited and compiled by Elizabeth Robinson and Jennifer Phelps. The essays in this volume, Quo Anima, consider innovative contemporary poetry by women in relation to…
LA Lit Scene: Beyond Baroque
Review by Sarah Suzor, Omnidawn features writer Who: Karren Alenier and Margo Taft Stevers What: A lecture and workshop on selecting award-winning manuscripts When: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 Where: Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd. Venice. Check out more Beyond Baroque…
Featured Essay: Jack Collom
With many thanks to the generosity of Instance Press and Elizabeth Robinson, OmniVerse is excited to be able to celebrate the work of Jack Collom in our next three issues. Collom’s latest book, Second Nature, out at the end of…