Spectral Sampo.
Performing The Sampo at Sector 2337 with Father Bob Hutmacher on the harp.
Performing The Sampo at Sector 2337 with Father Bob Hutmacher on the harp.
The Sampo is here. Official launch on April 27, 2016, at Sector 2337, where I will perform parts of the poem accompanied on the harp by Fr. Bob Hutmacher ofm. Come join us as we loosen the hallucinations.
In the meantime, Steven Manuel conducted an interview with me last month about The Sampo:
Stray Horn interview with Steven Manuel
It's a companion to the interview by Violet Callis that appeared last month in Fnewsmagazine.
5 Questions interview with Violet Callis
The Sampo is coming from the Cultural Society. In April. In the meantime, I am the subject of an interview for Fnewsmagazine, the newspaper for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thanks to Violet Callis for the interview!
I'll be reading in these places in 2016.
March 9, 2016, in New York City at the Poetry Project, with Joseph Donahue. Prepare for some dark sorcery.
April 27, 2016, in Chicago at Sector 2337, performing with Father Bob Hutmacher. Prepare for some incantatory magic.
May 27, 2016, at the American Literature Association meeting in San Francisco, I will be on a roundtable panel discussing Robert Duncan, with Jeanne Heaving, Brian Teare, Aaron Shurin, Laura Moriarty, and Norma Cole.
September 15, 2016, in North Carolina at St. Andrews University, as part of its semester-long Black Mountain College festival. (Details to come.)
I've got some other potential readings cooking. I'll update this listing as things happen.
Two new essays. The first, from an issue of Post-Medieval. The essay focuses on Dante. It was solicited by Sean Reynolds.
Imparadising, transhumanizing, intrining: Dante's Celestial Vision
The second, an essay from the Religion: Sources, Perspectives, Methodologies handbook, edited by Jeffrey Kripal, and recently published by Macmillan.
Poetic Religion: Forms of the Visionary Imagination
And the Verge Books website is live!
Coherer, a new book of poetry by Alicia Cohen, will be published this coming winter 2016 by Verge Books.
I'm working on the new Verge website. Stay tuned.
My cover version of Baudelaire's "Le Reniement de Saint Pierre." At the Marsh Hawk Review, in an issue edited by Norman Finkelstein.
Its companion is another cover version, along with an alternate take, of Baudelaire's "Alchemie de la Doleur," published by Gillian Parrish in her spacecraftprojects.
Among the beauties of Baudelaire: he believed in damnation.
LVNG benefit poster. From 1996? Looks like the handiwork of Brian Calvin. Back from the days of magical realism. {Correction! The flyer was drawn by Devin Johnston. Channeling B.C. from the Days of Rage.}
Here are some reviews and noticings of Phosphorescence of Thought (Cultural Society, 2013).
Stephen Burt, New Yorker's Page Turner (mainly on Ronald Johnson's ARK)
Nate Klug, The Economy
Brandon Krieg, Poetry Northwest
Jacqueline Lyons, Colorado Review
J. Peter Moore, Chicago Review
Jeff Hamilton, GoodReads
Amy Brown, Plumwood Mountain Review
Forrest Gander, Recommended Readings
Ismael Belda, Revisita de Libros
Ricardo Cázares, Mula Blanco (see p. 29)
Not a review, but a YouTube bonus: me reading the Benedicite hymn in Phosphorescence of Thought at Harvard in December 2014, joined by Dan Beachy-Quick, Fanny Howe, and Patrick Pritchett. Gnostic mysterium.
In case you missed these, here are two essays fairly recently published. The first is "Mycopoetics," published in Hambone 21.
The second is "Sacred Fantasy in Game of Thrones," published in Critical Quarterly (April 2015 | Vol. 57 | No. 1).
Sacred fantasy in Game of Thrones
The third is "Seven Tenets of the New Gnosticism," published at the Talisman website.
Seven Tenets of the New Gnosticism.
The fourth is "Apocalypticism: A Way Forward in Poetry," published in Chicago Review.
An interview with me conducted by Joshua Marie Wilkinson appears in the Letter Machine Book of Interviews, edited by Cristiana Baik and Andy Fitch, which was published a few months ago by Letter Machine Editions. This is the same interview that appears on the Volta website.