Tag Archives: Andrei Codrescu

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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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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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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The Grace Of Dying On Time

Milan Kundera: The Grace Of Dying On Time by Andrei Codrescu             I once tried to give Kundera $ 60,000 to give a lecture in Oklahoma. He was the top candidate for a 1986 literary prize that required only a … Continue reading

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Prose and The Poem

Prose and The Poem Max Jacob, The Dice Cup, (trans. By Ian Seed) Wakefield Press, 2022 In 1974, David Meltzer’s Tree Books published Andrei Codrescu’s à Max Jacob, a chapbook of original prose poems and a few visceral translations of … Continue reading

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Poetry As Crime; Parole at Ten

Poetry As Crime; Parole at Ten by Pat Nolan In September of 2012, Parole, the blog of the newly reconstituted Black Bart Poetry Society whose motto is “For those who think poetry is still a crime,” started as irregular memos … Continue reading

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New To The Society’s Shelves, 2022

The latest batch of arrivals to the The New Black Bart Poetry Society‘s shelves come from a variety of sources as gifts, contributor’s copies, review copies, exchange copies, remaindered stock, library sales, used book store finds, and actual retail purchases. … Continue reading

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The Education of Pat Nolan

The Education Of Pat Nolan An Anniversary Memorial for Keith Kumasen Abbott, 1944-2019 By Pat Nolan Paintings by Ivan Suvanjieff In pursuit of the writer’s life with absolutely no clue of what I was doing, I left the Midwest (c.1965) … Continue reading

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Bromige Was Here

Bromige Was Here Remembering David Bromige (1933-2009) by Pat Nolan David Bromige was here.  Although, truth be told, he wasn’t from here.  Like many coastal Northern Californians, he was from elsewhere: England, then Canada, and finally, rustication north of the … Continue reading

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Bromige Immortalized!

The Immortalization Of David Bromige by Steven Lavoie “The Prelude” A year or so ago my editor, knowing well my admiration and friendship with my college poetry-writing professor, sent me up to the old stomping grounds to cover a gang-bang … Continue reading

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