Coconut 13—with new poems by Rae Armantrout, David Lehman, Ariana Reines, Teresa K. Miller, Kate Colby, Carrie Olivia Adams, James Belflower, Anne Marie Rooney, Kristi Maxwell, Jason Zuzga, Megan Kaminski, Christopher Higgs, Nellie Haack, Claire Donato, Ravi Shankar, Emily Anderson, Laynie Browne, Jonathan Doherty, Kathleen Jesme, Matina Stamatakis, Mike Young, and Terence Winch--is now live.

A New Post

A piece on Richard Rorty. Oh, and another one.

Beckett's novels on stage.

Talking politics with Paul Hoover.

If I hear August Kleinzahler referred to as the "bad boy" of American poetry one more time, I'm gonna...

I just ordered Dog Girl. Bringin' da sound back to poetry.

TV on the Radio has a new record coming out--Dear Science. Dear TV on the Radio, I hope your new album is better than your last.

Cannibal Books announces
As Complete as a Thought Can Be
by Adam Clay
24 pp.
(hand-sewn)
$7 payable via Paypal (@)
flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com

or by check to

Katy Henriksen
501 Holly Street
Fayetteville, AR 72703

Edge Reading Series

Wendy Burk, Courtney Czar and Aimee Norton
Tomorrow, Thursday, July 17.
Casa Libre, 730pm
Suggested Donation: $5

More info here.

Posting, Shmosting II

Issue # 6 of the acclaimed literary annual FULCRUM features previously unpublished and uncollected writing by Samuel Beckett. The “Samuel Beckett as Poet” feature, edited by Philip Nikolayev, presents Beckett’s neglected masterpiece “Ceiling” and other uncollected and unpublished poems, essays by Christopher Ricks, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Marjorie Perloff, Eliot Weinberger, Simon Critchley, Anne Atik, S. E. Gontarski, Seán Lawlor, David Wheatley, Mark Nixon, Daniel Albright, Chris Ackerley, life drawings of Beckett by Avigdor Arikha, and a previously unpublished conversation between Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger on Beckett. A number of the essays quote Beckett’s unpublished correspondence and manuscripts.

Get it here.

Posting, Shmosting

Ross Hair on Ronald Johnson.

New Shampoo.

Henry Hart on Charles Wright.

More on Twombly.

Cannibal's new chappies.

New Rabbit Light movies.

Congratulations Michael Rerick Part II

Michael Rerick's first book, In Ways Impossible to Fold, has been selected by Thylias Moss for the Marsh Hawk Press book prize.

Congrats Adam!

Adam Chile's exquisite, moving debut poetry collection Evening Land– available now from Cinnamon Press.

Praise for Evening Land:

Spirited along by variations on David Hockney's East Yorkshire oil paintings, Adam Chiles's Evening Land is of battered earth and psyche, 'dark ginnel' and 'glockened land' where 'a man is forgiving his hand for losing its fingers.' Chiles has written winter figures steeled against 'everything gagged and prisoned'. This is a first book by a seriously adult poet.

-Jane Miller

In Adam Chiles' poems, the painter meets the painted. The stranger discovers new lands. The morning touches night. Things find new and surprising orders. This book is fresh and revelatory — Chiles has his finger on the pulse while he also knows the depth of our wounds. A fantastic new voice in poetry.

-Colum McCann

These intensely taut and gorgeous lyrics of Chiles' Evening Land are poems written in exile. His is a chosen exile, though, a banishment of the physical rather than political. In this kingdom of memory and field, marsh and war, language finds solace in the grammar of landscape. … Chiles' heart is buried with his true home. For once, we should be glad of exile. Never has distance from one's homeland created such important, stunning work.

-Joshua Poteat

New from Flying Guillotine

Michael Rerick's new chapbook, X-Ray. Order it here.