Coherer, by Alicia Cohen, coming from Verge Books.
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.
Cover designed by Quemadura.
New poem.
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.
Flyer courtesy the USA Trust.
Long long ago...
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.}
Phosphorescence of Thought.
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.
Four recent essays.
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.
Letter Machine Book of Interviews.
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.