Michael S. Hennessey

Editor

Michael S. Hennessey is the editor of PennSound and editor (with Julia Bloch) of Jacket2. His scholarly writing on sound, media and poetry has appeared in The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (Salt Publishing, 2012), PoemTalk, Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011), The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Interval(le)s, and English Studies in Canada, and is forthcoming in The Journal of Beat Studies and Mine Is Clouds: 17 Writers on the Life and Legacy of Richard Brautigan.

Recent poetry publications include NOON, Jacket, EOAGH, Elective Affinities, Jupiter88, Zen Monster, Brighton Approach: Gold Edition, and Horse Less Review, along with Leonard Schwartz’s radio program Cross Cultural Poetics and the chapbooks Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems) and [ static ]. You can listen to a number of recent readings on his PennSound author page.

By this author

Poetry in 1960, a symposium: Question and answer session

On Daisy Aldan, 'A New Folder'

Three poems

Recently in Jacket2

Topsy-Turvy

Charles Bernstein

Please buy the book directly from the publisher, University of Chicago Press, or a local bookstore, including Bridge Street Books, SemCoop, Talking Leaves, Indiebound, McNally-Jackson, and Bookshop.Org.

176 pages, paper and ebook. Audiobook is from Chicago and Amazon/Aubible.

Jerome Rothenberg

Ian and me: A collaboration (redux)

Jerome Rothenberg

[In memoriam, Ian Tyson (1933–2021), painter, printmaker, sculptor, and extraordinary book artist, who was my dear friend and frequent collaborator over a half-century and more. (j.r.)]

I have tried an altenstil / & dropped it. — J.R., A Book of Witness, 2003

Reading 'Los muros no son para siempre'/'Walls are not forever'

Honora Spicer

Maire Reyes, Nayeli Hernández, Iris Díaz, Ana Iram, Paloma Galavíz, Olga Guerra, Marcia Santos, and Alejandra Aragón, ‘Los muros no son para siempre’ (Walls are not forever) (Ciudad Juárez: Casa Centro X16, 2019)

The zine opens to a map of dotted lines: barbs on a wire, punctured lines symbol of trails, punctuation of walking routes. The lines trace a walk taken on October 13, 2019, by border artists Maire Reyes, Nayeli Hernández, Iris Díaz, Ana Iram, Paloma Galavíz, Olga Guerra, Marcia Santos, and Alejandra Aragón.