Anne-Marie Bonnet

Anne-Marie Bonnet is a French art historian, art critic, curator, university professor, art lover, and human being, who feels best when free to look, see, and think.

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Beyond Metrical Prosody: Berlin conference

Charles Bernstein

rhythmicalizer. a digital tool to identify free verse prosody

Thanks to Erik Redling and Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek for organizing Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry at Freie Universitat in Berlin. The lively discussion underlined the value of this German-American exchange. I was grateful to learn more about the poetry and short lives of Rolf Dieter Brinkman (1940-1975), as presented by Jan Röhnert, and Rainer Maria Gerhardt (1927-1954), presented by Agnes C. Müller. Brinkman translated O’Hara and Berrigan. Olson and Creeley wrote poems for Gerhardt (recordings on PennSound), the editor of FRAGMENTE, a prescient magazine that included them both: MP3 -- Olson reading "To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe's Things..." in Berlin in 1966 and MP3: Creeley's 1956 reading of "For Rainer Gerhardt"

Rochelle Owens: 'Devour Not the Elephant'

Jerome Rothenberg

[N.B. To which she adds, in correspondence: “The elephant is a non-predatory mammal, a sensate being. The poem intersects body and spirit — elephant desire, with the function of marketing, production, distribution and exchange of elephant and rhino body parts by human predators.”]

Poaching scene

crime scene carcasses of

dead rhinos and Savannah elephants

Precious the ivory tusks and horns

cut off severed

Two from a bull

raw and bleeding holes gouged

'A lemon painted yellow'

Amy Stidham

Capsule reviews

Editorial assistant Amy Stidham returns with three capsule reviews on unexpected drama. Under review: stack by James Davies, Common Place by Sarah Pinder, and Battledore by L. J. Sysko.

stack, James Davies (Carcanet Press, 2017)