Kenneth Sherwood

Kenneth Sherwood & Loss Pequeño Glazier on electronic poetics in 1995

From the LINEbreak series

Left, Kenneth Sherwood; right, Loss Pequeño Glazier

In this episode of the LINEbreak series, co-editors of RIF/t, Loss Pequeño Glazier and Kenneth Sherwood, talk with Charles Bernstein about electronic publishing and the politics of editing the first online hypertext journal of poetry and poetics, RIF/t magazine. Their program was recorded in the Music Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1995. An audio recording of the full program (29 minutes) can be heard here: MP3.

March 7, 2013

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To empty rooms (PoemTalk #204)

Horace Gregory, "Chorus for Survival"

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Al Filreis convened Cristos Kalli, Jon Hoel, and Henry Steinberg to talk about two poems about the once hugely famous and now mostly forgotten communist and communist-affiliated poet who thrived for decades but most notably in the 1930s. In the middle of the Depression decade — in the momentous year of 1935 — he published the book Chorus for Survival with Covici-Friede. Our group discussed two poems in the Chorus for Survival series — numbers 5 and 11. In 1944, Gregory traveled to Cambridge, Mass., to record some poems for the Harvard Vocarium, performing six poems include the two we discuss. Jon and Al had met up nearly a year before, discovered a common interest in Gregory, and have co-curated this episode.

January 27, 2025

Mining Black history

On two docu-poetry collections

Aiden Hunt

From left to right: Alison C. Rollins’ book “Black Bell” and Sheila Carter-Jones’ book “Every Hard Sweetness”

“Documentary poetics is often lauded for its ability to articulate social injustices and advocate for civil rights,” writes award-winning poet Craig Santos Perez.^{^[1]} Two poetry collections published last year harness this ability and mine the African American archive to shine a light on evidence of past injustices in the hopes of a better future.

Black Bell
Alison C. Rollins
Copper Canyon Press 2024, 136 pages, $22.00, ISBN 9781556597008

Every Hard Sweetness
Sheila Carter-Jones
BOA Editions 2024, 134 pages, $19.00, ISBN 9781960145123

Zhang Ziqing (Feb. 2, 1939 - Dec. 10, 2024)

Charles Bernstein

James Sherry, Zhang, and me, at my W. 92nd Street apartment in NY (1994)

Zhang Ziqing (Feb. 2, 1939 - Dec. 10, 2024).