Online shop launches late May.

From Gillian Conoley’s “The Mothers of Sparta”

Issue number one of αntiphony launches late May.

The NYT just called 'colonialism' and 'imperialism' 'academic words.' Sorry? Are 'war' 'world' 'weapon' 'power' 'violence' 'money' and 'land' academic words?

Chris Kraus & Ann Rower in Conversation 🌹 anothermag.com/design-living/…

'Slain habitually by strangers' / atomizer-ambient / sexuality--my hobby / is mortification / by fleet comparisons.' thebaffler.com/poems/green-tu…

Great reading last night in San Francisco with Dean Radar, Amanda Moore and Carly Marie DeMento.

“They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.' ––Howard Zinn, 1971.

Also Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train.

We complain a lot about contemporary poetry being too 'academic,' but learning institutions are what prop the whole thing up.

The sad reality about the big publishers is explained well in the article below, which pulls a lot of interesting quotes and numbers from the recent…

End of May

I liked living in a world where Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler were paying strict attention to poems.

first poem from Fady Joudah's ALIGHT

Sheila Heti

'The Waste Land' Revisited yalereview.org/article/vendle…

Our profession may be on a suicide mission. It's like a game of how can we alienate everyone but the far left despite having an exceptionally expensive product that needs broad buy in. I can only shake my head.

The closure of SPD has left so many wonderful presses in the lurch, including Fonograf Editions, which published Isabel Zapata's A WHALE IS A COUNTRY in my translation and has been a true joy to work with. Here's how to help them recover some of their losses--

gofundme.com/f/support-fono…