More doubles

Two poems by Spencer Reese, in the latest issue of Poetry.

Pangrams and emblems

—mi'kmaq book of the dead, mIEKAL aND, Poetry


























(Via.)

Catalan call

Dzyd Jason has a smart interview with Lydia Davis up at the Poetry Foundation site...they're rapping* about translation, specifically LD's translation of a Catalan carol in the current issue of Poetry.

Randomly picked quote-as-appetizer:

"There is hardly any way to supply that lack."

More Lydia madness: Catch LD and Dzyd Sarah locking brain-horns in this Believer interview.


*I just mean "talking."

Two momentary stays against confusion

Chicago Dizzyheads—

Today, June 9 at 4:30, there's a poetry reading at the Printers Row Book Festival, featuring A Public Space contributors Robyn Schiff, Nick Twemlow, Srikanth Reddy, and more. They'll be at the Lucille Clifton Poetry Tent. This is on "historic Printers Row," around Dearborn and Polk.

New York Dizzyheads—

On Monday, June 11 at 7, Poetry Magazine and McSweeney's co-sponsor a night at the Reader's Room at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction (34 Avenue A btw. 2nd and 3rd) featuring John Ashbery, Lynn Emanuel, and Charles Bernstein, to celebrate The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets.

Some press release info about The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets:

The first McSweeney's foray into contemporary poetry brings together one hundred poems by fifty poets in ten poet-chains, and makes us wonder why we waited so long to try this. How it works: Ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation. Thus DC Berman leads to Charles Simic by way of James Tate, and other chains run through Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C.D. Wright, Michael Ondaatje, John Ashbery, Mark Doty, Dean Young, Yusef Komunyakaa, and dozens more.