John Olson

John Olson is the author of numerous books of poetry and (chiefly) prose poetry, including Dada Budapest, Larynx Galaxy, and Backscatter: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of four novels, including In Advance of the Broken Justy, The Seeing Machine, The Nothing That Is, and Souls of Wind.

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Elsewhere is here

John Olson reviews 'Everwhat,' poems by Clayton Eshleman

Reflections on a Paper Mirror

'The Beginning Of Sorrows'

John Olson with Noah Eli Gordon

A romantic In denim

Inner light

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Near/Miss

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.

Tamas Panitz: two new poems from 'The House of the Devil'

with a note on Lunar Chandelier Collective

Jerome Rothenberg

[EDITOR’S NOTE. To point out that the poetry, while sufficient in itself, is of interest too for the circumstances of its coming publication, under the auspices of Lunar Chandelier Collective (LCC), a self-defined community of younger poets largely quartered in the Hudson valley of New York and with close ties to Robert Kelly and others of his generation and mine among those sharing publication.]

It is not enough to remember

R.K. — The Loom