Jess Mynes' HOW'S THE COWS

HOW'S THE COWS

by Jess Mynes

(temporarily sold out)

How’s the Cows fits it together and so opens it up. It’s the smoothest condensation, where objects are thought as words that themselves indicate locations of multiple occurrence. It’s a sentimentality with edges, where living passes before and after the words that seem to emerge from somewhere neither inside nor out, in a disorienting compression as astonishing as a day’s sky is in slowed-down time. This language tightens and loosens around an expertly tuned yet elusive location, springing from a need to say suffused by kindness, delight, and difficulty—a language Mynes is pushing toward total inclusion.

$5.00

Roberto Harrison's BRIDGE OF THE WORLD

BRIDGE OF THE WORLD
by Roberto Harrison

Far from pretending to dispense wisdom securely achieved, Harrison’s writing presents the search for a metaphysics fully in touch with the concreteness of personal, global and universal existence. The rhythm of these poems’ breath bears us across the book’s bridges, between the Americas, between life and death, love and pain, inscription and music, human and animal and cyberbeing, undoing their oppositions as the mind-poem seeks to open itself to each, to bear itself toward them across a gulf of difficulty. By juxtaposing stark diaristic report, chantlike rhythmic passages, and tightly woven instances of reflexive syntax and impossible image, Bridge of the World enacts a thought that exceeds conceptualization, a thought that only poetry can think—and needs to.

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CAConrad's MUGGED into poetry

MUGGED into poetry

by CAConrad

(temporarily sold out)

CAConrad’s (soma)tic reply to a knife aimed at his heart is a series of generous, dazzlingly diverse, compact poems bursting with the courage, humor and irrepressible energy that make his writing so important to so many. Friends are here, and enemies, neither left in shadow by the bright light of the ecstatic language that brings everything into a wide view of the living world. Meeting half-way the approach of our inevitable deaths, dissolving the boundaries between poem, everyday life and dream, MUGGED Into Poetry manifests the continuing expansion of Conrad’s poetics, rooted in the local and the realizing, speaking to us all.

$5.00

Submissions are still closed

We've been getting a good number of submissions, and just wanted to make it clear, since it doesn't seem to be: if this site doesn't say, somewhere, that submissions are currently open, they aren't. Hopefully, that doesn't sound chiding or otherwise unfriendly; we just want to make sure people aren't sending stuff into the void, which can be what it amounts to, as we get very busy very often and therefore take forever to write back to people who have sent work during a "closed" period.

Cannot Exist no. 6 is out!

What a pleasure it is to announce the appearance of Cannot Exist no.6!

Such pleasure derives from the 60 pages of mind-bendingly strange, heartbr(e)aking, hilarious, urgent work contributed thereto by the following masters of contemporary versification:

Michael Bernstein

David Buuck

Mairead Byrne

Jordan Dunn

Lewis Freedman

Steve Gilmartin

Bob Heman

Crag Hill

Mary Kasimor

Monica Mody

The Nonsense Company
Nicholas Ravnikar

Juliana Spahr

Jordan Stempleman

David Wolach

Joey Yearous-Algozin

You can buy the issue by clicking on the PayPal button below, or by sending a check for $6.00, made out to "Andy Gricevich," to:

Andy Gricevich
4454-D Hillcrest Dr.
Madison, WI 53705

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS AND LINKS

David Buuck:

buuckbarge.wordpress.com

Mairéad Byrne emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1994, for poetry. Her books include The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven (Publishing Genius 2010), Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003). She lives in Providence and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. Check out the new book at http://www.whatsleftofheaven.

Jordan Dunn currently lives in Madison, WI, with his girlfriend and their infant son. He supports farms, bicycles, and parallax. He can be reached here: jordancdunn AT gmail DOT com.

With Nico Vassilakis, Crag Hill is editing a major international anthology of visual poetry, The Last Vispo Anthology. Over 130 contributors from over 20 countries.

Mary Kasimor has two books, Silk String Arias (BlazeVox Books) and & cruel red (Otoliths). She also has had poems published in online and print journals. She lives in the cruel heart of the heart country where writing poetry is necessary for survival.

Monica Mody is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Notre Dame. Her poems have been published in Wasafiri, Nthposition, Pratilipi, Midway Journal and other online and print publications.

The Nonsense Company (Rick Burkhardt, Andy Gricevich and Ryan Higgins) has toured nationally and internationally with its pieces of innovative chamber music and strange political theater. Its most recent project is Storm Still, an extended meditation on King Lear.

Jordan Stempleman's newest book is Doubled Over (BlazeVOX, 2009). He teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute and is the Associate Editor of The Continental Review.

David Wolach is editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and a participant in Nonsite Collective. His most recent books are Occultations (Black Radish Books, 2010), Prefab Eulogies Volume 1: Nothings Houses (BlazeVox [books], 2010), Hospitalogy (Scantily Clad Press, forth. 2010), and book alter(ed) (Ungovernable Press, 2009). A former union organizer and multi-media artist, Wolach's work often begins as site-specific and interactive performance and ends up as shaped, written language. Critical work on the poetics of spatial practice and the body has appeared most recently in Jacket and Sibila: Poesia y Cultura (Brazil). He's currently at work with composer Arun Chandra on a 4-channel sound-text composition for four voices, a set of pieces which includes "modular arterial cacophony" from Occultations. Wolach is professor of text arts, poetics, and aesthetics at The Evergreen State College, and visiting professor in Bard College's Workshop In Language & Thinking. For current projects, including Wheelhouse calls for submissions, visit him at http://davidwolach.blogspot.com/

Joey Yearous-Algozin is the author of Kensington Notebook (Lean-To Press) and BOSTON STREET/TREES (Lean-To Press). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from Forage and the Robert Walser Society of Massachusetts. He is currently a PhD student in Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo.

Cannot Exist no.5

Featuring generous selections of amazing new writing by

Nathan Austin

Laura Carter

Kristen Gallagher

Derek Henderson

Tom Hibbard

Brenda Iijima

Paul Foster Johnson

Andrew Levy

Chris Mercer

Chuck Stebelton

Steve Timm

with a cover by Steve Dalachinsky

It's SOLD OUT.

Author Bios and Links

steve dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in journals on & off line including; Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, N.Y. Arts Magazine, 88 and Lost and Found Times. He is included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James "Blood" Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth), Vernon Reid (Living Colour) has garnered much praise. His most recent chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press 2005). Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005). His books include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) and his PEN Award winning book The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006).

His latest CD is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005).

He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe, including France and Germany.

Paul Foster Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, was published in 2008 by Apostrophe Books. The poems in this issue are from a new collection to be published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. With E. Tracy Grinnell, he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems have appeared a number of literary journals, including GAM, EOAGH, Pom2, Fence, The Portable Boog Reader 2, Antennae, Bird Dog, andOctopus. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and currently lives in New York, NY.

Andrew Levy teaches at QCC-CUNY, serving as the Faculty Advisor on the student newspaper, Communiqué. He is the author of several books of poetry and essays, including The Big Melt (Factory School), Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics(Roof Books), and Curve (O Books). Cracking Up is forthcoming from Truck Press, and Billy Dale Shoots to Kill from Chax. He is editor, with Roberto Harrison, of the arts and poetry journal Crayon.

Chris Mercer's website, which (says the editor) is full of remarkable music and research.

Chuck Stebelton works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. He is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps, 2008), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press, 2007), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press, 2005).
http://www.answertaghomepress.com/stebelton.html
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/chuck_stebelton01.shtml

Cannot Exist launch reading

The Segue Series presents a reading and talk to celebrate the launch of Cannot Exist no.4!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31st, 4-6 p.m.

Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery (just north of Houston)

NYC

with

Rick Burkhardt

Thom Donovan

Lawrence Giffin

Andy Gricevich

Eileen Myles

Laura Sims

Christina Strong

Rodrigo Toscano

what a great roster!