Reviews That Should Have Been Written:
Poetry, The Press, and Public Space
For more about Charles Bernstein:
- Read our August 1999 feature, “Charles Bernstein, Laura (Riding) Jackson & Talk Magazine.”
- Visit the links we collected there to just a few of his many poems & essays on the Net.
- Listen to his RealAudio interview with David Lehman & readings of a good number of his best poems, in the April 2000 issue of The Cortland Review.
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- Read our August 1998 feature, “Preface to A Rebirth Announcement Haiku, for Amiri Baraka, on birthday numero sesenta,” a poem written for him by Bob Holman.
- View the streaming video of his reading of “Wise Why's Y's” & an interview segment from Bill Moyers' Fooling With Words PBS film. The Fooling With Words site also features the texts of eight of his poems.
- You can listen to “In Walked Bud” at mp3lit.com.
- Allah Mean Everything, Thus Spake Amiri Baraka is Volume 2, Set 4 of The Newark Review, where you can also view a streaming video recording of his performance of the poem at Kimako's Blues People in summer 1999.
- The Modern American Poetry compendium has a collection of biographical & context information, excerpted interviews & commentary on his work.
- His poem “Ka'Ba” is at the Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center.
- “Re: Port” is among the excerpts posted online from Xcp, the journal of cross-cultural poetics.
- You can read his 1965 essay, “The Revolutionary Theatre,” at the University of Michigan's site for its course on the Black Arts Movement.
- Two poems, Black Art & Short Speech To My Friends, are in the collection of readings for the course taught at the University of Pennsylvania on African American poetry.
- Six of his poems, including “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,” are posted at Snally Gaster's African American Phat Library.
- An wide-ranging interview, “Djali Dialogue with Amiri Baraka,” appears at Minorities' Job Bank's African-American Village.
- A photo, biographical chronology, notes on his play Dutchman & bibliography are on his page among the artist profiles at Bridgesweb's black theater site.
- His poem “Lord Haw Haw (as Pygmy) #37” is at the the American Museum of Beat Art.
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- “School of Fish,” the poem from which her most recent collection took its name, was posted together with a brief biography & Brighde Mullins' introduction for her 1996 reading at DIA Center for the Arts.
- She talked about that particular poem & about teaching poetry to high school students as the January 1999 featured poet on WriteNet's Poet's Chat.
- The lingo 5 CD had her poem “Maxfield Parrish,” & the recording is now available online.
- “Losing My Glove,” “Woo” & “Sorry” are in the archives at the St. Mark's Poetry Project.
- You can hear her readings of “Sleepless” & “On the Death of Robert Lowell” at mp3lit.com.
- There's an interview with her at the Naropa/Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics site.
- “Rotting Symbols” was published in TheEastVillage.com, No. 8.
- “Compassion” appeared in deluxe rubber chicken #2.
- Her poem “Milk” was published in Jacket #2.
- “40th Street” is in the special New York/San Francisco issue of BeeHive.
- Tinfish #5 has her poem “Waterfall.”
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For more about Jennifer Moxley:
- Her poem “Æolian Harp” appeared in Jacket #2; “Fear of an Empty Life” appeared in Jacket #6.
- Pete Smith's review of her work, “A Lovely and Familiar Gravity,” (liberally sprinkled with quotations from her poems) was published in Jacket #9.
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