Category Archives: Poetry Society

The Poet Interviews A Novelist, Part I

In which the indefatigable Carl Wendt, not quite Charles Baudelaire, not quite Charles Bukowski, poet for all seasons, master flaneur, and last of the poètes maudits, interviews a shooting star novelist at the behest of his agent, Nora White, and … Continue reading

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Black Bart Quarterly Review Of Books II-1

—Notice To The Membership & Interested Parties—The Society would direct your attention to the menu bar above. Conditions of Parole have been revised to reflect new guidelines for submissions to Parole. Note as well new menu categories have been added … Continue reading

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—Special Collections Gallery—

Ken Mikolowski’s The Alternative Press Poet Ken Mikolowski and his wife, painter Ann Mikolowski, started The Alternative Press in Detroit in 1969. They were part of The Artists Workshop co-founded by John Sinclair and George Tysh. For a fascinating history … Continue reading

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—New To The Society’s Shelves—

Mark Young, Ley Lines II, Sandy Press, 2023Ley Lines II, Mark Young’s latest poetry selection, offers a who’s who of celebrity names as titles. For those unfamiliar with the term, ley lines are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures, prehistoric … Continue reading

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Charles Bernstein’s GPS

Charles Bernstein’s GPS Recalculating by Charles Bernstein (The University of Chicago Press, 2013) When they are not being performed, Charles Bernstein’s poems are on the edge of performance. But they don’t start that way. They start as notes from a … Continue reading

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Tom Raworth and the Tale of No Ordinary O

Tom Raworth and the Tale of No Ordinary O Alastair Johnston Tom Raworth (1938–2017) was a major figure in the British poetry revival of the 1960s. Charles Olson praised his first book The Relation Ship as “preternaturally wise.” Ted Berrigan … Continue reading

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Journal of a Plague Year And A Half

Pat Nolan Andrei Codrescu & Vincent Katz, A Possible Epic Of Care, Black Widow Press, 2023 A Possible Epic Of Care is a pandemic prompted project that began at its onset in early 2020 and concluded in July of the … Continue reading

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All Best Phil: Annotated Letters from Philip Whalen

Alastair Johnston’s long association with Philip Whalen has resulted in numerous collaborations between the poet and the printer/publisher including Prolegomena to a Study of the Universe & Other Prose Takes (Poltroon Press, 2014)and The Diamond Noodle (1980). He has put … Continue reading

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Philip Whalen’s KYOTO Notebooks

Philip Whalen’s KYOTO NOTEBOOKS Transcriptions & Notations by Keith Kumasen Abbott As a professor at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder Colorado, Keith Kumasen Abbott (1944-2019) spent his summer breaks over the course of four years, beginning … Continue reading

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“Poesy’s ravening violet flames”:  Whalen in Ekstasis, Part II

“Poesy’s ravening violet flame”Whalen In EkstasisPart II(Part I can be viewed here)  by Bruce Holsapple 4. A Musical Feeling in the Line             I’d focus now on “The Best of It,” a nine page poem … Continue reading

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