Georgina Colby

Georgina Colby is the author of Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and a number of essays on experimental writing. Currently she is editing a collection, Reading Experimental Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and working on a monograph that addresses the relationship between literary experiment, political activisms, and feminist forms of solidarity from 1970 to the present day. She is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster and a Director of S A L O N — LONDON. She lives with her partner and two cats in Cambridge, UK.

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Charles Bernstein

New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.

A poem as a machine?

Margaret Rhee

William Carlos Williams wrote in his introduction to The Wedge (1944) that “[a] poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words”; or “poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. As in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.”[i] A poet and physician, Williams is most known for plums, the everyday, minimalistic, rhythmic meter and lineation.

On Lydia Davis's 'In the Train Station'

Al Filreis

In 2017 I moderated an interview/conversation with Lydia Davis. At one point I asked her to read "In the Train Station," a prose poem or microstory I have admired and puzzled over. Then she and I discussed it. A video clip of that exchange is here, below. The transcription was done by Regina Salmons. The text of the piece can be read here. Here is a link to a video recording of an 18-minute discussion of this piece with Anna Strong Safford and erica kaufman (the video is inside the ModPo site; one must register to watch). And here is a 35-minute collaborative close reading (with 20 people) of the same piece which I hosted in San Francisco.