JULES BOYKOFF - SQUELCHING DISSENT

Professor Boykoff on David Barsamian's Alternative radio.

Narrow House presents:
There Were One & It Was Two:
Annotated Artifcacts from the Doubles Museum
by Rick Royer with sound by John Berndt

Book/CD release party
June 29, 2007
7 p.m.
FREE

The Red Room
425 E. 31st St.
Baltimore, MD
(410) 243-6888

Naropa Summer Writing Program

I'll soon be in Boulder teaching, reading, paneling, partying, hiking, & Kerouac festivaling:

Week Two: Lineages of the New American Poetry and Beyond
Monday, June 25–Sunday, July 1, 2007

Eric Dolphy would've been 79 today.

Nautical homophonic puns (a flarf primer)

Good post over at This Cruellest month.

TOM RAWORTH RECEIVES MAJOR AWARD

Tom Raworth has been awarded Italy's prestigious Antonio Delfini Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The ceremony will take place in Modena on 23 June. An illustrated limited edition of Raworth poems has been published to mark the occasion. The only previous Anglophone poet to receive the prize is Robert Creeley.

Raworth's recent Caller and Other Pieces and the classic Ace are available via paypal from Edge Books.

issue the first

Pennylicious

Thinking of going to DePaul, think again.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. --Steve Lacy

Looking fwd to Flag Day.

Truthout too optomistic again. Somebody, please, crack that Libby nut.

ART

Sudden Spider at Ideolexicon

New at Bridge Street

Raging Caging

eviltrailmix

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your favorite cartoon character?”

Deed, forthcoming, September '07

Cover photo: Thrift Store Washington, Tim Davis.

CONTENTS

The Good House 4

The Spider Poems 36

The Given

Barnes & Chernobyl 54
Poem 55
1/43/97 56
The Given 57
Moist Feelings: A Love Poem 58
Identity is the Cause of Warts 59
Ted’s Head 60
Specifically the Luminous 61
The Strength 62
Floorboard 63
the love that is truly a refuge
for all living beings 64
XCVII ("she knows who she is") 66
The Narrative Quiescence 68

Homage to Homage to Creeley 70