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Charles Alexander	A wing & a word
Brian Ang	PennSound & Politics
Oana Avasilichioaei	Folding Borders: Experimenting in the Canadian Laboratory
Gary Barwin
Eric Baus	Notes on PennSound
Charles Bernstein
Julia Bloch	Against the weather: On teaching Williams
Jeff Boruszak	Notes from PennSound
Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand	moxie politik
Pam Brown	Jacket the first
Laynie Browne	The Poet's Novel
David Buuck	Performance/Poetics
J. R. Carpenter	Performing Digital Texts in European Contexts
Stephen Collis	Neighbouring Zones
Randall Couch	Cavafy in English: The sesquicentennium approaches
Thom Donovan	SELF \| LIFE \| WRITING
Marcella Durand	Geometries of landscape
Jacob Edmond	Iterations
Steve Evans	The phonotextual braid
Michael Farrell	australia, fitzroy
Farnoosh Fathi
Al Filreis
Kristen Gallagher	Gossip or History
Michael S. Hennessey	editor, Jacket2 and PennSound
jen hofer	trans positions
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Hilary Kaplan	Brazilian poetry and poetics
erica kaufman	Pedagogy & Poetry
Aaron Kunin	The wish to be an object
Astrid Lorange	Fossicks and offerings from Sydney
Erín Moure	T r a n s l a t i o n ' s__H o m e o p a t h i c__G e s t u r e s
Aldon Nielsen	RECONCEPTUAL
Angela Hume, Gillian Osborne, & Margaret Ronda	Field Notes from the 2013 Conference on Ecopoetics
Craig Santos Perez	Last Commentator in Paradise
Vanessa Place	Global Conceptualisms
PoemTalk
a rawlings	AÐ LANDA
Jack Ross	Notes on NZ poetry
Jerome Rothenberg	Poems and poetics
Kyle Schlesinger	Book Arts
Kathy Lou Schultz	Epic Worlds
Susan M. Schultz	Experimental poetries in the Pacific / editing Tinfish Press
Leonard Schwartz	Cross Cultural Poetics Commentary
Jonathan Skinner	ecopoetics
Danny Snelson	Reissues Commentary
John Tranter	Under the Horizon
Stephanie Young	the more territories, the more circulation

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The 8 best poet-on-poet profiles in Jacket's first 5 years

IMHO

Al Filreis

From left to right: Ann Waldman, Lytle Shaw, Rob Wilson, Marjorie Allen Seiffert

I took the pleasure recently of re-reading nearly everything published in the first 17 issues of Jacket magazine. Then I went back through quickly, identifying eight poet/critic-on-poet profiles that I found most impressive and memorable. Many of these I recalled from the first time I’d read them in the magazine. For what it's worth, here are — to me — the eight best essay-profiles published in the first five years of the magazine:

1. Eliot Weinberger on James Laughlin (#2; 1998)
2. Rob Wilson on Jack Spicer (#7; 1999)
3. Lytle Shaw on Frank O’Hara (#10; 1999)
4. Stephen Vincent on Joanne Kyger (#11; 2000)
5. Tom Orange on Clark Coolidge (#13; 2001)
6. Brian Kim Stefans on Ian Hamilton Finlay (#15, 2001)
7. Ann Waldman on Kenneth Koch (#15; 2001)
8. Catherine Daly on Marjorie Allen Seiffert (#17; 2002)

May 24, 2013

Jeff Boruszak

Notes from PennSound

Will Alexander: absentia like a pre-atomic sigil

"Compound Hibernation"

Al Filreis

photo of Will Alexander courtesy of Skylight Press

In March 17, 2007, reading in the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, Will Alexander read four poems: “Exercise is Particle Neutrino,” “Coping Prana,” “Compound Hibernation,” and “Above the Human Nerve Domain.” An audio recording of the complete reading (17:59) is available on Will Alexander’s PennSound author page, as are segmented audio for each poem. Here I’m pleased to feature “Compound Hibernation” [MP3; 2:22]. The text of the poem was published in Zen Monster.

May 23, 2013