Reissues


Alcheringa Archive: A Journal of Ethnopoetics, 1970–1980 (ed. Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg)	Apr 07, 2011
Alcheringa audio inserts	Jun 07, 2011
Aufgabe, 2001–2014 (ed. E. Tracy Grinnell et al.)	Feb 26, 2017
Big Allis, 1989–2000 (ed. Melanie Neilson and Jessica Grim)	Jul 04, 2013
Calque, 2007–2009 (ed. Brandon Holmquest and Steve Dolph)	Sep 04, 2016
Chain, 1994–2005 (ed. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr)	Sep 10, 2012
Combo: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 1998–2003 (ed. Michael Magee)	Nov 26, 2011
Dreamtime An Introduction to the Alcheringa Archive	Oct 19, 2010
Infolio, 1986–91 (ed. Tom Raworth)	Apr 28, 2014
Inventory of digitized magazines	Jul 30, 2018
M/E/A/N/I/N/G, 1986–1996 (ed. Susan Bee and Mira Schor)	Mar 03, 2013
New Wilderness Letter, 1977–84 (ed. Jerome Rothenberg)	Dec 10, 2013
Pages, 1987–1990 (ed. Robert Sheppard)	Jul 30, 2018
Reality Studios, 1978–88 (ed. Ken Edwards)	Feb 02, 2012
Roof, 1976–79 (ed. James Sherry)	Jan 04, 2013
Secession, 1922–24 (dir. Gorham B. Munson)	Aug 31, 2011
Zuk, 1987–89 (ed. Claude Royet-Journoud)	Nov 18, 2012

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Disambiguating rape culture

Lynn Melnick’s nouns

BK Fischer

Photo of Lynn Melnick (left) by Timothy Donnelly.

Gertrude Stein never trusted nouns. She was wary of their tendency to fossilize meaning, even as she relished their potential to be magnetized: “Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun.”[1] Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence, eighty years later, takes up this ambivalent and vexed embrace of nouns in the space of rape culture, where adoring and wanting cross use and abuse as matters graver than grammatical concern.

From 'Eclipse' by Joe Safdie, with a note on its poetics by the author

Jerome Rothenberg

A sunrise, the sun’s course, a sunset are marvelous to no one because they occur daily. But solar eclipses are a source of wonder because they occur seldom, and indeed are more marvelous than lunar eclipses, because these are more frequent. Thus nature shows that she is not aroused by the common ordinary event, but is moved by a new and striking occurrence. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. — Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Do you have an extra cigarette?

Sommer Browning

image of a long road that fades into the distance taken from inside a car — long road

Have you ever heard Aram Saroyan read his poem “Biography”?[1] It is a poem in which he recites every year from his birth to the current year in his usual steady, calm cadence. I’m a bit fascinated with this poem; I seem to bring it up often. It really can’t be beat. It’s a pure poem. I heard him read it in 2007 (I think) at Poet’s House in New York. There are a hundred things to say about the poem, how the simplicity of it belies the fact that it describes something huge, i.e.