Reviews That Should Have Been Written: Poetry, The Press, and Public Space, page 2

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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For more about Amiri Baraka:

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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For more about Eileen Myles:

“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.