From the EPC:

During its 1998 to 2003 run Andrew Felsinger published exciting work by dozens of poets and artists in VeRt poetry magazines attractive and well-crafted online pages.

We are proud to announce the return of VeRT to the web, at EPC.

View it here.

Matt Dalby is mounting a (so far) five-course meal of reading P. Inman:

Be prepared for the possibility that I will get many things horribly, hilariously wrong. The motivation for this post and the others that will follow, although I’m not currently sure how many that will be, is that I’m simultaneously enjoying and finding it hard to come to an understanding of P.Inman’s work.

You can also read his review of Richard Barrett’s Pig Fervour and what he thought of the most recent Other Room reading.

Peter Philpott has gone over the entire modernpoetry site yet again, updating links and providing far and away the best overview of contemporary British poetry on the internet. If you are new to this stuff and you’re wondering where to start, you need to start here.

So much Flarfy stuff on the net since the publication of That Poetry Magazine.

It starts with Kenny Goldsmith stirring the waters, stuff about disjunction and monkeys, typewriters:

Start making sense. Disjunction is dead. The fragment, which ruled poetry for the past one hundred years, has left the building. Subjectivity, emotion, the body, and desire, as expressed in whole units of plain English with normative syntax, has returned. But not in ways you would imagine. This new poetry wears its sincerity on its sleeve . . . yet no one means a word of it. Come to think of it, no one’s really written a word of it. It’s been grabbed, cut, pasted, processed, machined, honed, flattened, repurposed, regurgitated, and reframed from the great mass of free-floating language out there just begging to be turned into poetry. Why atomize, shatter, and splay language into nonsensical shards when you can hoard, store, mold, squeeze, shovel, soil, scrub, package, and cram the stuff into towers of words and castles of language with a stroke of the keyboard? And what fun to wreck it: knock it down, hit delete, and start all over again. There’s a sense of gluttony, of joy, and of fun. Like kids at a touch table, we’re delighted to feel language again, to roll in it, to get our hands dirty. With so much available language, does anyone really need to write more? Instead, let’s just process what exists. Language as matter; language as material. How much did you say that paragraph weighed?

Ron Silliman likey the idea of but something is nagging at him. Dale Smith don’t like it not one bit.

Kenny even makes it into Wired. Then he responds.

It’s one of them good days. onedit 13 is online and taking names, including:

• Emily Critchley
• Philip Davenport
• Allen Fisher
• Harry Godwin
• Richard Parker
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• seekers of lice
• Jonty Tiplady
• Elizabeth Treadwell

Also, don’t forget the onedit launch taking place today.

Thoughts on the ICA exhibition from Tony Trehy and Elizabeth James. Harry Gilonis has also posted a comment on Openned regarding the exhibition.

Peter Philpott outlines the post-avant:

So, I am, optimistic little soul that I may be, positing the possibility of something other than, more than, the institutionalised minor games that the post-avant can all too easily be seen as. Some kind of questioning stance towards the nature of poetry may be maintainable. There may be a “bad” post-avant, the inescapable fashionable mish-mash; but may be there can be a “good” post-avant, which attempts nevertheless7 the continuing radical questioning of poetry and language. It will need to be fully self-aware and to be totally questioning of its foundations. It will not provide comfort for anyone.

Reviews of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, ed. Cole Swensen & David St. John, from Johannes Göransson and Ron Silliman.

Internships at Salt, to provide design and publicity support in Fulbourn, Cambridge UK:

Salt is opening additional offices in London this month, and we are offering two internships from June onwards to support our UK sales and editorial team during this exciting expansion. The two positions are for a graphic designer to work on books, covers and Web projects and a book publicist to complement our expanding marketing and sales team. Both positions will be based in our Cambridge sales office in Fulbourn.