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My tribute to Pierre Joris in boundary 2.

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We’ve come to this in The Finacial Times. And we won’t see the New York Times putting it this way, alas. Could it be that our only hope will be the New York Post? That’s even too topsy-turvy for me.

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Pierre Joris (1946-2025) From the family: We will gather at main gate, Greenwood Cemetery, 500 25th Street (Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, Brooklyn), on Friday, February 28 at 9:45am and proceed to the gravesite. At 2pm, we will meet at Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook (253 Conover Street, Brooklyn).

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#WashingtonPost: The darkness where democracy dies.

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Penn's School of Arts and Science will cut PhD admissions (in all fields) 30 percent because of Trump/Musk/Republican defunding of research/education in order to give tax breaks to the 1%. Stop the Steal!

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from "Dodging" (work in progress), May 2024

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Musk’s rampage through government shows us how we can finally close the book on what Trumpism is all about

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Union Square rally.

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I’m hosting a celebration of Kenneth Koch at The New School on March 17 at 7 pm. Speakers will include Robert Polito, Ron Padgett, Maxine Groffsky, John Keene, Lucy Sante and Jim Jarmusch.

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A page from the first work in The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies -- "Ocular Truth and the Irreparable (Veil)" -- in which I redact myself. You can get the book for 30% off at < press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... > with code "UCPNEW".

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WHEREIN I perform pages from the near the end of Stein's Making of Americans, a work I first wrote about in 1971. jacket2.org/commentary/p...

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EMERGENCY PODCAST: Trump FBI applicants must answer “Who is your REAL boss?” Others must confirm '20 election was “stolen;” Jan6 an “inside job,” per WaPo Democracy is, symbolically, over Musk hints at ignoring court orders GET THE NEW SUNDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST: PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/ez4jhj9a

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In which I do a video performance of a few plays by Dick Higgins for the launch of Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Bonnie Marranca, U Michigan Press, 2024, via @flowchartfdn.bsky.social media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/w...

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WHEREIN I perform John Barton Wolgamot’s 1944 poem, IN SARA, MENCKEN, CHRIST AND BEETHOVEN THERE WERE MEN AND WOMEN & tell a tall tale about Keith Waldrop in memoriam.

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BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

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the above/ground press postal increase sale, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

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My obit for Zhang Ziqing now on my commentary page at Jacket2. Here's Zhang, James Sherry, and me in my NY apartment in 1994. jacket2.org/commentary/z...

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Delighted by this review. You can get the book with a 30% discount (use code UCPNEW at checkout) at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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My reimagination of the keynote in the age of Zoom: 30 min. video on "Speed Listening"

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A human-assisted AI song version of "LIve Acts," from Controlling Interests (1980), which I read live at Artist's Space last week. 2 min audio: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4x9h2...

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“These days I keep thinkin’ / We ought to boycott ourselves.” On Rotterdam garbage truck. From "Ballad laid bare by its devices (Even): A bachelor machine for MLA" in Near/Miss.

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from The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies

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Carp, Ontario; as wee one her weekly ringette game, my first look through Charles Bernstein’s latest collection of “essays & comedies,” / @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social

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8 years ago NPR commissioned me to write an inauguration day poem but refused to broadcast it (tho pd kill fee). As discussed in The Kinds of Poetry I Want, NPR was in full Trump enabling mode -- making it a policy to not call Republican lies lies. "Our United Fates" is in Near/Miss (UChicagoPress)

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Video of my reading this past Saturday with Sol Cabrini at Artist's Space in New York.

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Richard Foreman June 10, 1937 - January 4, 2025 His memory, and the memory of his work, is a blessing for all who had the pleasure to experience it. jacket2.org/commentary/r...

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Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas has put together an extraordinary pdf of Zukofsky's early poems, aka juvenilia. This includes poems LZ wrote while a student a Stuyvesant high school & Columbia. & while you are on this exemplary site, go to "A"-9 and find Zukofsky's Spinoza notes. z-site.net/notes-to-poe...

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New website for Paul Bowles.

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youtube.com/watch?v=HdCU... Jennifer Bartlett on her biography of Larry Eigner, last month at CUNY.

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Feng Yi on my collaboration with David Balula

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New issue of Iperstoria includes Robin Seguy on his digital edition of Pound & Chris Mustazza on my AI collab w/ Davide Balulua (Poetry Had No Future Unless It Comes to and End). Listen to the sound files here: balula.org/ai/cbdb & get the book in the US here: www.printedmatter.org/catalog/64054/

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In the poetry of Mary Ellen Solt, visual kinetics meet verbal charm and joie de vivre comes along for the ride. Wake up and see the syntax.

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-->>https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series-sol-cabrini-charles-bernstein

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>>!!!: The audio file of the launch for The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies -- my script performed by Tan Lin, Christian Bök, Tracie Morris, Felix Bernstein and me at Giorno Poetry Systems, NY, on Dec. 5. Get book for 30% off with code UCPNEW @ press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/...

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Douglas Messeril on my 1980 collection Controlling Interests: an early in-depth essay, which Messerli has now made available on the web. Controlling Interests is still in print and available also as an ebook from ROOF.

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New on the MIT Press Reader: selections from "Output," a new anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT, with additional commentary from @docmofo.bsky.social

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Floriana Puglisi on the collaboration of Bee & Drucker. Also in the issue essays on Paul Dutton, Judy Grahn ++

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Some reflections on Greenberg.

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Today in Sibila (Brazil) Aurora Bernardini responds to The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies. Bernardini brings the book into dialog with Pécora, Neiman, de Sousa Santos, Spivak's resistance to the way identity loses it aesthetic & political force when cast into a reductive mold.

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An anti-official Russian poetry is now flourishing as a powerful force for aesthetic invention, political resistance, and cultural freedom. The Freest Speech in Russia introduces a vast constellation of searing and appealing poets. Stephanie Sandler is an informative guide to a new Russian poetry...

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Hugh Seidman tribute.

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And remarkably this book remains in print (and with a ebook) from ROOF. A great honor, Ron!

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Interview about my AI collaboration with Davide Balula, Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End in the new issue of Buzdokuz from Turkey.

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Wallace Stevens Journal via Project Muse -- Perloff and Vendler tributes. muse.jhu.edu/article/945718

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