Category: Essays

Jed Rasula: “Heeding the Heedless Sublime”

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…