Research Cluster
A selection of hand-picked information, news, reviews, and opinion about poetry & related matters
October 26, 2023
“How I Now Remember Then” by Steve Benson
“The Turmeric Poets (Part I)” BY Vi Khi Nao
Chariot Wish on the Ultimate Bravery of Transsexuals
Christina Catherine Martinez Risks It All For the Perfect Driving Selfie
Ben Fama on Paranoia, Puffy Pouts, and the Perversities of the Internet
October 10, 2023
Confusion Is Text: Thurston Moore Interviewed
On Being a "Serious" Poet by Chen Chen
“Notes on Tone” by Anahid Nersessian
Looping On Repetition: A Conversation with Holly Melgard
June 29, 2023
A Review of Josef Kaplan’s LOSER
Into the Sublime with Anahid Nersessian
Everest Pipkin on the Utopian Potential of Gardens
The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980
June 29, 2023
What Happened to the Institutional Critique?: A Roundtable
Not an Age for Small Claims: An Interview with Anahid Nersessian
“I Am/an Alien Maybe Sprayed with Humanness”: Remembering Bernadette Mayer
Encounters at the End of the Book: Interview with Kim Rosenfield and Jack Skelley (video)
June 25, 2023
Mario Carpo on the New Humanism
Martine Syms Surveys What Remains
Anna Sew Hoy and Litia Perta in Conversation
An Interview with Poet and Translator David Larsen, Part 2
June 24, 2023
Butch Blow Job by Jenny Johnson
An Interview with Jack Skelley and Taylor Lewandowski
An Interview with Poet and Translator David Larsen, Part 1
Interview on AI/Tech/Poetry/Labor with Jackie Wang and Christopher Soto
June 20, 2023
Martine Syms’s “Loser Back Home”
Pau Pescador Celebrates Safe Havens
Prosody and Pain in Keston Sutherland’s Scherzos Benjyosos
On Other Intelligences: A Conversation with Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
June 5, 2023
Jack Skelley on The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker
The Thrills and Perils of Raw-dogging Reality
Jacob Foster and Danny Snelson: Can AI and Creativity Co-exist?
“I Live In My Mind, Not In My House”: A Conversation with Emily Simon
June 1, 2023
The Longest Possible Route by Andrew Key
Human Law and Divine Law (Reflections on a Recent Manifesto)
May 23, 2023
Generational Curse by Halleta Alemu
The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism
On Maureen Owen’s let the heart hold down the breakage Or the caregiver’s log
May 16, 2023
A Review of Work by Dean Sameshima and Mark Verabioff
‘My god, girlhood’: on Savannah Brown’s Closer Baby Closer
May 11, 2023
An Interview with Emmalea Russo
A review of Jack Skelley’s Interstellar Theme Park
Death of an Author Prophesies the Future of AI Novels
Julianne Tura’s ‘Unnatural Acts of a Wretched/Pure, Southern Girl’
May 3, 2023
Catherine Lacey’s Provocative Novel in Disguise
No Monuments: On Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Miami Is a Poem We Write Together by Christina Catherine Martinez
April 28, 2023
Remembering John Tranter (1943-2023)
The Rebel Legacy of LA’s ASCO Chicano Art Group
How a LACMA Sculpture Ended Up as an LA DJs Sound Studio
Mistaken for Empire: An Interview with Christine Imperial
Michelle Lhooq on Drugs, Death, and the Eternal Quest for Counterculture
April 23, 2023
Art’s Intelligence: AI and Human Systems
What ‘Cursed’ Art Tells Us About the Future of AI
"An Attempt to Connect": An Interview with Teresa Carmody
April 17, 2023
A Hero Who Could Be You by Alexandro Segade
Hedi El Kholti in Conversation with Ryan Mangione
What Sean Bonney Means When He Talks About Zombies
April 13, 2023
A Review of Annelyse Gelman’s Vexations
On China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting
Wo Chan & imogen xtian smith in Conversation
Gary Indiana and Chris Kraus on Autofiction and Art World Fuckery
April 8, 2023
A Review of Holly Melgard’s Fetal Position
On Moss Icon's Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly
On Simone White’s or, on being the other woman
The Impossible Cool of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023)
April 5, 2023
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
On Cosey Fanni Tutti’s “Re-Sisters”
On Matt Longabucco’s Heroic Dose
March 31, 2023
McKenzie Wark Talks with Aria Dean
Kate Durbin Interviewed by Ben Fama
“I Speak Only For Myself”: Anahid Nersessian on Keats, Feminism, and Poetry
Index for Continuance: A Podcast on Small Press Publishing, Politics, and Practice
March 29, 2023
A Review of Lewis Warsh’s Elixir
Tight Wires: On Sandra Simonds’s Assia
A Review of Alice Notley’s The Speak Angel Series
What Sean Bonney Means When He Talks About Zombies
Ceaseless Life and Death: On Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book
March 20, 2023
The Couple Form by Anahid Nersessian
Trulee Hall Creates a Paradise of Lesbian Forest Nymphs
A Review of Mark Francis Johnson’s Sham Refugia and Poor Fridge
March 16, 2023
Unreadability (Part III) by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
Bruce Wagner’s Dream of Stars by Emmalea Russo
The Real New Fall Podcast: HEX ENDUCTION HOUR with John Tottenham
Plants in a Garden, Tended by Machines: A Conversation with Nora N. Khan