The 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets

The scene of young/emerging poets has reached critical mass. Thus, John Sakkis and Jessica Smith are editing an anthology, that requires rethinking the “anthology” as a genre. Their anthology will be a massive collection containing critical introductions, a sample poem from each author (one), and author biographies. It is not intended to familiarize the reader with the depth and breadth of any single author’s work, but intstead to provide a detailed record of the sheer magnitude, energy, and plurality of experimental poetry at the turn of the millenium.

Outside Voices will release the anthology at the turn of the New Year 2008 (10 years after Lisa Jarnot’s Anthology of New (American) Poets).

You should have been born roughly between 1973 and 1983
send a few really good poems & a short bio including your birthdate
to poetry2008@gmail.com
by Jan. 1, 2007

visual poems should be in .jpg or .tiff
otherwise please format to Garamond 10 pt

For more information visit www.outsidevoices.org

Plantarchy One

The first issue has been released, of what will be a brilliant many. jUStin!katKO has already enlisted a number of favorites, including Ric Royer and Michael Basinski for Plantarchy 2: Performance and Performativity. If you would like a copy of the first issue, visit plantarchy.us

There are some dear gems in it, including, but not inclusive to: Tom Raworth, Lisa Jarnot, Rodrigo Toscano, Jow Lindsay, William R. Howe, Alan Sondheim, Matthew Klane, Andrew Topel, Chris Stroffolino, 405-12-3415, Kevin R. Hollo, Maria Damon, mIEKAL aND, Sheila E. Murphy, Christophe Casamassima, Camille Martin, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Geof Huth, and Jefferson Hansen.

And when you do buy it, do read Stephen Perkins essay, Neoist Interruptus and the Collapse of Originality. Do read intriguing paragrpaphs like this, and do try to remember what we’re all up to:

In February 1984. . . Home publishes the first issue of a magazine called Smile. The genesis of the magazine was to propagate the ideas he was developing before his introduction to neoism. However, by the fifth issue of Smile in October of the same year, he was encouraging readers to adopt the multiple name aesthetic, and for everybody to publish a magazine called Smile. This cross-pollination of the multiple name concept into the field of magazine publishing can be seen, in retrospect, as Home’s most “original” contribution to the Neoist movement.

Each In Neither

Finally, all the hard work Michael Slosek puts into the magazine Drill are now put into his latest book, Each In Neither. Mike drove HousePress through the down-times by keeping alive the magazine, and now we get to celebrate through this work.

The topics – large, the scope – mammoth, and it is in dealing with these large topics with small quiet lines that causes the secrecy of the work. Reading the book makes you feel like part of the silent resistance. If we spoke too loud, it's possible we would be heard. While reading the work please imagine the last losing battles, the final dead few, and our great city overrun.

songs of what
is to come – twisted
up in relief

evidence for a machine
written under hand,
the palm wipes clean –

night looking back
into itself, hap –
penning

to collapse to matter
to flame – it is called
across

what functions – beliefs
in unnamed stone –
hanging out of the mouth

If you would like a copy of Each In Neither contact him at his new address: 2322 West Walton St Apt 1 Chicago, IL 60622 or shoot an email to mslosek at fulbrightweb dot org

String of Small Machines

But Michael Slosek daren't dream of leaving unfilled the hole left by Drill. And now these are the final few days for submissions to String of Small Machines--a new poetry magazine from HousePress, operated out of Chicago. The format will be 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Please send up to 10 pages of work. They prefer to have a minimum of 3 pages of work for each poet. The magazine will also include a cd for sound work. Please include a short bio with your submission, and send as an ms word attachment to small_machines at yahoo dot com. It’s going to be a good magazine and a great first issue. Visuals, strong poems from a number of lines, and no famous people. Started alongside two other heroes, Luke Daly and Eric Unger, now mid-westerners all.

Three visual projects by Luke Daly in stuninng intensity (it puts HD TV to shame–pixels are to blame). http://housepress.org/authors/daly/daly.html

Soon will be the grand opening of the HousePress music portal FolkVolk.com where you will be able to hear Eric Unger’s songs. An interface that highlights only a handful of musicians, we are excited to premier his songs on the opening run.

Spell Issue 2

Although the June 20th deadline for the latest issue of Spell has past, at least now we can focus all our attention on anticipating a great issue of experimental poetry; emerging, or otherwise vein. Poetry with graphic elements or poetry in a distinctly 'visual' format. Spell is intended to be “a resource where people can feel free to step outside of their usual modes of process and challenge themselves to tackle new and different areas.” In the fifties Jack Spicer used Open Space as a monthly journal for a community of poets to print their works in process. (It was solely for that purpose, there was a very limited number of each issue made.) Spell is different, it’s to include ‘visual’ artists, it’s to be read not only by the contributers, and not all the work has to be in process."

If you’d like to submit to the next issue, write to eric.unger@gmail.com

The Meister-Reich Experiments

Visit Mathew Klane’s new work The Meister-Reich Experiments exclusively at HousePress.Org http://housepress.org/authors/klane/meisterreich.html Here’s an excerpt from Meister-Reich Volume One:

If I Were

Max of Mexico

and actually
Emperor of
Nowhere

I’d thrifty nix
this Christmas
gifting

(no más X, no
more mirth)

Flim Forum is an independent press for the publication of experimental poetry, editors Matthew Klane (Albany) and Adam Golaski (Hartford). Flim is interested in poetry that postulates that builds and develops original logics, grammars, poetry that dissolves to redefine the lines between sense and nonsense, process and product, sight, sound, and semantic. Flim has an especial (though not exclusive) zeal for serial poetry and thereby, promises to provide a space for extensive selections. The April 30th deadline has passed, but I know for a fact that Matthew Klane loves reading unsolicited submissions so please send yours to: Matthew Klane
Post Office Box 549 Slingerlands, NY 12159

Ecopoetics 04/05

With the release of ecopoetics 04/05 there has been a return to normalcy. After a brief hiatus in 2004 the journal is back up and running: the double 2004-2005 issue. There are too many great names to list them all, but will. Roy Arenella, Michael Basinski, Charles Bernstein, David Berridge, Alicia Cohen, Jack Collom, Mary Crow, Tina Darragh, Ian Davidson, Marcella Durand, Ken Edwards, Kenneth Goldsmith, Clayton Eshleman, Kenny Goldsmith, Lynn Harrigan, Peter Jaeger, Peter Larkin, Douglas Manson, Florine Melnyk, Ethan Paquin, Meredith Quartermain, Kate Schapira, Lytle Shaw, Jonathan Stalling, William Sylvester, Arthur Sze, Mark Weiss, Sara Wintz, Lila Zemborain.

SINGLE ISSUE: $10 ($20 institutions)
Postage included; outside US & Canada, add $5
Please make checks payable to Jonathan Skinner.

ECOPOETICS
111 Bardwell Street, Lewiston, ME 04240
jonathanskin [at] gmail [dot] com

ecopoetics 06 will appear before the end of 2006.

www.ecopoetics.org

Ric Royer (Solo performance July 8th at The Talking Head (Baltimore). A benefit for Narrow House Recordings. Starts at 8pm, $6. Also on the bill: John M Bennett, Rupert Wondolowski, Among Wolves and a bunch of others.)

Ric Royer ("The Hystery of Heat", presented by the Performance Thanatology Research Society, will play at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre (Manhattan) on August 16-19, 2006.)

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