“Spreading My Wings,” “Lucky Streak,” “Hold Me To It,” “Unbuttoning,” “Looking Forward,” and “What’s Inside”
Visual Art: Zoë Pike
Category: Features
SOUNDING: Mary Cisper reads Will Alexander
Reviewing “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself,” “Across the Vapour Gulf,” “Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeats,” and “Compression & Purity”
T. Zachary Cotler: from Elegies for Humanism
The following three essays are excerpts from Cotler’s monograph Elegies for Humanism, which will be published as a book by Rare Bird Books this year. “Outlasting Artifacts” “Transitioning” “World-building”
Donald Revell: “A Family of Mountaineers: Barbara Guest’s Exceptionalism”
A Family of Mountaineers: Barbara Guest’s Exceptionalism He was particularly indignant against the almost universal use of the word idea in the sense of notion or opinion, when it is clear that idea can only signify something of which an…
Two Films by Peter Burghardt and Rusty Morrison: “Sky Totems” and “Watching”
These films were originally screened as part of the panel titled “Ecopoetics of Film” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Forrest Gander.
Two Films by Forrest Gander: “Paleoacoustics” and “The Hugeness of that which is Missing”
These films were originally screened as part of the panel titled “Ecopoetics of Film” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Peter Burghardt, and Rusty Morrison.
Two films by Joshua Marie Wilkinson: “Shimoda’s Tavern” and “Fred Moten”
These films were originally screened as part of the panel titled “Ecopoetics of Film” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Forrest Gander, Peter Burghardt, and Rusty Morrison.
Bay Area Lit Scene: The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand
The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand written by Paul Ebenkamp edited by Meg Hurtado The Scoop Where? 416 25th St, Oakland CA When? 7:00 pm Parking? Free street parking Donation? $5 admission (or what you have) Books are usually…
Hank Lazer Photo & Videocast
* a photo of Hank Lazer reading (with Christian Bok) in San Miguel de Allende. look closely, he’s reading from a copy of Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). also, check out this VIDEOCAST of Hank reading…
Video: Michelle Taransky
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX0PXwAhEzY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Michelle Taransky, winner of the Omnidawn poetry contest, has a new video of “barn burning, that” featured at THE CONTINENTAL REVIEW. Taransky sends her thanks to Emily Pettit and Ava dellaira for their production help, to Jordan Stempleman and…