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AB Series hosts Richard Truhlar this evening at the Mercury Lounge. Truhlar (“poet / fictioneer / text-sound composer /”pataphysicist / concretist / visual artist”) has been publishing poetry since the 70s. Along with other avant-garde writers, he was responsible for such publishing imprints as Kontakte, Phenomenon Press, Teksteditions and Underwhich Editions. He has done sound […]

Dempster was the reader at Tree (vid clip) last October and if you missed him (or are missing him), he’s back in town this month as the next feature at Plan 99 this Saturday at the Manx. He’ll be teaching at Banff School of writing this fall and tomorrow is the drumroll… Press Release – […]

Jane Holland’s has a workshop on editing, posted in relation to the Mxlexia Women’s Poetry competition which closes July 26. Her 2nd workshop suggests messing with text mechanically to see what turns up under the leaf duff of intent. So to rummage the tool box… that cento again, machine-translated to Japanese to English to Greek […]

Join us on June 8th at Umi Cafe to experience the glorious and internationally adored Amal El-Mohtar! Winner of the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry, editor of Goblin Fruit magazine, and recently-published author of The Honey Month, she’ll grace us with myth-laced and sensual poetry and, I hear through the grape vine, might just give […]

One can look at a poem as movements, quick-paced phrases and headlong rush of plot or imagist slow whirlpool. One can plot summaries in the margins of gist. Repeated objects can be circled like eyelets or lily pads. Themes act to lace a common thread thru. Or sounds can. One can read by going thru […]