Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas

This was my garish and hideous go at this interactive web page where you can make your own Pollock. Drip your own masterpiece.

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SIR!

Patchy with some intriguing moments pushing south over the coming weeks. Loving the headless links.

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Poetics & Polemics 1980-2005 by Jerome Rothenberg

Pierre Joris:

Very happy & thrilled to announce this new collection of JR's essays, just published in the University of Alabama Press's Modern & Contemporary Poetics series — especially as the book contains a number of collaborative pieces (the intro to the Poems for the Millennium anthologies) and is dedicated to yours truly — humble thanks, Jerome!

Check out the bottom centre pic on the cover. Sweet.

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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship

The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. 

See here for more information. via Simone on the Royal Holloway Poetic Practice MA forum

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Toadex Hobogrammathon

Can you help Brian Kim Stefans find the elusive Toadex Hobogrammathon?

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Jacket 36

Jacket 36 - Late 2008 If there is one poetry site on the internet you can point the finger at for consistent quality, it's Jacket.

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'She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy...'

In the United States the flag has the status of a religious icon, a totem. It cannot be carried horizontally or flat, but must always be 'aloft and free'. There is a protocol for folding it, it can't touch the ground, it can't be burned except when it is worn out or irreparably damaged and then only as part of a special ritual.

From an article in the LRB.

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Are 3 Novels, Revised as One, a New Book?

Among the nominees for this year’s National Book Award in fiction, which will be presented next Wednesday, is a book that some have complained is not exactly new: Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country,” published by Modern Library, which is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Mr. Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999...

Answers on a stamped addressed envelope.

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Matt Dalby Reviews if p then q and Parameter

Matt Dalby:

Short version I like both magazines. I find parameter 7 has what seem to me to be the most conventional looking poems, but a lot that comes off the pages and sticks in your head. If p then q 2 seems the harder, but at the same time the poems come to me as appearing more vital. But as already discussed they didn't stick immediately. It's too short as well. I could have gone for more - but 26 A4 pages is pretty generous when there's a CD and some postcards of images from Joy as Tiresome Vandalism aRb Versions. Parameter is like reading a book that keeps taking turns for the unfamiliar, whereas if p then q is like finding pages blowing around in the street that keep threatening to turn into a book even though they're different sizes and fonts.

if p then q is edited by James Davies. Parameter is edited by Tom Jenks. Both publications are labours of love and deserve your time.

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streetcake Issue 3 Submissions

Those streetcake peeps are keeping busy:

We want innovative and experimental poetry and fiction for issue 3 (which will go live late Dec/early Jan). please submit to: streetcakemagazine@gmail.com

You heard 'em.

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