The New Yinzer

News from Jow Lindsay reveals one of two things. This is the first, being a new issue of The New Yinzer, featuring work by:

• Alex Kruckman
• Amanda Katz
• Justin Katko
• Jeff T. Johnson
• Evelyn Hampton
• Leslie Patron
• Jieun Reiner
• Josh Stanley
• Eli Halpem
• Haley Dolan Katko
• Adam Roberts
• Blake Butler
• L. Amelia Raley
• Becca Swimmers Ear
• M. Rebekah Otto
• Matthew Savoca
• Ryan Manning
• Ian Hatcher
• Tara Goe
• Hannah Reiff
• Janalyn Guo
• Shannon Tharp
• Noé Cuéllar
• M. Ann Hull
• Brian Foley
• Michael Correy
• Katy Henriksen
• Claire Donato
• Justin Taylor

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Xing the Line

Thursday 6th August, 7.30pm

• Alan Hay
• Nat Raha
• Johan de Wit

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge SE1 3HN Admission £5 / £3 (conc.) via Vents

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Eric Mottram at James Sherry's Loft

Charles Bernstein:

25 years ago, on May 13, 1984, I hosted the British poet Eric Mottram, at James Sherry's loft for a reading and discussion. We've just digitized this recording for PennSound.

Listen.

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Desperate For Love

Thursday 13th August, 8 - 11pm

• Tim Atkins
• Mat Colegate
• Lucy Harvest Clarke

Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN Admission £3.50

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Is Poetry Written To Be Read?

Ron Silliman:

Is poetry written to be read? That seemingly no-brainer of a question was roiling my half-sleep in that shadowland the other morning between the first sounding of my alarm clock & the moment, 30 minutes later, when I actually dragged my poor self out of bed. The answer appears obvious & yet it’s not, at least not once you start to tease out the assumptions implicit in such a question. Perhaps even stranger, the answer may be changing even as I write.

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An Amiri Baraka Primer

PennSound has just posted an Amiri Baraka primer on their homepage. An excellent way in.

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Shatner Performs Palin

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_t1A8LGzg#] Not sure how long this is going to be available before YouTube tears it down.

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This is the Motherfucking Remix

We posted about Marcus Slease's and Brian Howe's This is the Motherfucking Remix in text form six months ago, but now there is an audio version available which can be checked out if one so wishes.

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otoliths 14

Otoliths 14 is now available for viewing.

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The Commons set 3

Sean Bonney has started to post the next series of The Commons on his website. For those of you yet to check out this work, you can download set 2 free of charge off the Openned website.

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