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 You forget that we are prisoners of conventional forms, academic poetry, and even the most beautiful of this poetry … it wasn’t what we wanted.  —Aimé Césaire

 You forget that we are prisoners of conventional forms, academic poetry, and even the most beautiful of this poetry … it wasn’t what we wanted. 

—Aimé Césaire

Joan Retallack | The Reinvention of Truth$5.00 here Accordian Broadside | Edition circa 200?Printed to commemorate The Inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics.Printed on 100% recycled paper at the San Francisco Center for the Book (editions includes green, blue, and pink variants). Epigraph and textual variations determined by chance operations. 

Joan Retallack | The Reinvention of Truth

$5.00 here 

Accordian Broadside | Edition circa 200?

Printed to commemorate The Inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics.

Printed on 100% recycled paper at the San Francisco Center for the Book (editions includes green, blue, and pink variants).

Epigraph and textual variations determined by chance operations.
 

jenbenka: puppy love. or this by Wislawa Szymborska. Published in “View with a Grain of Sand” Harcourt Brace, 1993

jenbenka:

puppy love. or this by Wislawa Szymborska.

Published in “View with a Grain of Sand” Harcourt Brace, 1993

Poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert was born today (Feb. 4) in 1900

Poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert was born today (Feb. 4) in 1900

Allen Ginsberg / Beat GenerationMay 31–September 9, 2013Centre Pompidou-Metz presents the entire Saga of the Beat Generation, via the manuscripts, books, films, photos, live performances of Allen Ginsberg and his associates in a large-scale digital exhibition, the first of its kind. This multimedia “dematerialized” show will occur simultaneously in four separate European institutions:Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing (France), Champs Libres in Rennes (France), ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany),Centre Pompidou-Metz.  

Allen Ginsberg / Beat Generation
May 31–September 9, 2013
Centre Pompidou-Metz presents the entire Saga of the Beat Generation, via the manuscripts, books, films, photos, live performances of Allen Ginsberg and his associates in a large-scale digital exhibition, the first of its kind. This multimedia “dematerialized” show will occur simultaneously in four separate European institutions:
Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing (France), 
Champs Libres in Rennes (France), 
ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany),
Centre Pompidou-Metz.

 

Six drawings by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

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Who wants a 2013 National Poetry Month Poster?

Who wants a 2013 National Poetry Month Poster?

Joseph Ceravolo. Whose Collected Poetry is just out from Wesleyan.

Joseph Ceravolo. Whose Collected Poetry is just out from Wesleyan.

“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan

“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan