| Feature Articles, 1999 |
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12/28/99 - “To the Teeth” 12/21/99 - “In Praise of the Seattle Coalition” 12/14/99 - Multivoice Poetry Ensembles 12/07/99 - 60 Minutes: The Poets Slam Back! 11/30/99 - Happy New Millennium Approaching 11/23/99 - Archipoetry 101 11/16/99 - But What If These Are Poetic Times? 11/09/99 - The Contents of Carl Hancock Rux's Backpack 10/31/99 - 95 Theses: Mission of the Machines 10/26/99 - Busted for Poetry! 10/19/99 - Moss / Dalachinsky / Axel / Lourie 10/12/99 - Count the Ways 10/05/99 - Fast Approach to a Turning Point 09/28/99 - Maggie Estep, Bernadette Mayer, Sal Salasin 09/21/99 - Remembering Poetry: Learn't by Heart 09/14/99 - Alan Horvath: Part II 09/07/99 - Alan Horvath: Keeper of the Mimeo Flame 08/31/99 - Juliette Torrez Goes Long Distance with Sherman Alexie 08/24/99 - Charles Bernstein, Laura (Riding) Jackson 08/17/99 - June Jordan, Ruth Yarrow: Poems to Rebuild Kosovo 08/10/99 - “Refuting the Book of George” 08/03/99 - Against All Odds: Eritrean Millennium Poems 07/27/99 - “The Prince of Tides,” A Timely Fable 07/20/99 - Mediaization, Democratization, Popularization 07/13/99 - Big News In Po-Land! Academy-Slam Merger 07/06/99 - Resurrection of a Mimeo Press 06/29/99 - Report from the Poetry Wars 06/22/99 - Danny Shot's “The Blame Game” 06/15/99 - Your Summertime Poetry Reading List, Part II 06/08/99 - Your Summertime Poetry Reading List, Part I 06/01/99 - Frank Lima's idobelieveidobelieveidobelieve 05/25/99 - Victor Hugo's Best Stanza 05/18/99 - The News In Poetry 05/11/99 - d.a. levy / mimeo, Azulao / Cordel 05/04/99 - The Worst Poem of All Time 04/27/99 - Holy Kid: An Interview with Edwin Torres 04/20/99 - New York Heavyweight Poetry Bout 04/13/99 - World Without Dogs: Fuzzy Doodah's New CD 04/06/99 - The Compleat Michael Benedikt 03/30/99 - The Peoples' Poetry Gathering 03/23/99 - Open Takes Over 03/16/99 - Luminous Animal 03/09/99 - Poetry Spots: A Roundup of Brief Reviews 03/02/99 - “Literature Nation” 02/23/99 - The News in Poetry 99: 02/16/99 - The Adventures of Book Waitress 02/09/99 - All Together Now! Part II 02/02/99 - All Together Now! 01/22/99 - John Yau's “830 Fireplace Road (2)” 01/12/99 - The Sounds of Poetry, Part II 01/05/99 - The Sounds of Poetry, Part I
A holiday present from our poet of the year, Ani diFranco... the title track from her just-released album.
A new poem by Eliot Katz, for those who put their organizing energies, eyes, brains, and bodies on the line.
Universes / i was born with two tongues: These groups turn the poem into a communal act... they punch a hole in the future, a sweet opening for a new literature -- people-driven, with searing content, and not afraid of beauty.
Last week, 60 minutes devoted 12 of them to poetry. Slam poetry, to be exact... our newest Museletter correspondent, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, files the report.
As the Beast makes its final Slouch to Bethlehem, a few things to pause gratefully for: new work by Sapphire & Jack Collom, Jose Garcia Villa at long last in print in the U.S.
Gary Mex Glazner explores community building with Albuquerque poets & architects... & Poet's Plaza becomes a reality.
Victor Infante comments on the LA Weekly's recent review of local poetry & the furor that followed.
His new album is da Bomb & Rux is so clearly on the go that we asked him what he was taking with him there.
Modern-day Martin Luther of poetry & P.T. Barnum publisher Marc Awodey posts his manifesto on the electronic cathedral.
Jean Howard gives us an eyewitness account of the 8th annual National Poetry Video Festival in Chicago.
Fill your eyes & ears with word-life! More new poetry books & recordings you need to know.
Gary Glazner takes a step back & whirls Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'round the dance floor: “How Do I Slam Thee?” (+ EBB & American Objectivist links).
Approaching millennium winter, a big round-up of fall poetry doings -- CDs, chaps, anthologies, shows & poets are quitting their day jobs....
“Hot sex and brainy,” “Holy perfect storm” & the oxymoron of “misanthropic purity”: Bob Holman reviews three new books to spin us past the equinox.
A step-by-step how-to by Bob Holman: You memorize because you have to... You have to make this poem your own.
Keeper of the Mimeo Flame & the Flaming Mimeo offers a parting poem & a fascinating history of his publishing projects.
An interview with Alan Horvath, poet & homemade publisher who has just reissued a series of d.a. levy's books.
A reprint of Juliette's interview with National PoBout Champeen Sherman Alexie from (Sic) Vice & Verse, the mag that's guaranteed to smear yr fingerprints and stain yr mind.
& Talk Magazine: A reprint of Bernstein's recent Buffalo Poetics listserv posting... He wants it both ways! and so do we. Always.
New poems by June Jordan and Ruth Yarrow bring the war home to all of us. This is poetry's job. (This feature has a hidden bonus track by Diana Roose.)
Or, why one month a year for poetry isn't enough... A movie review, news article and poem, all wrapped up in one... by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez.
Tigrinya poet Reesom Haile, translated for us by Charles Cantalupo, brings African poetry into the 21st century.
Hearing the need of a nation to create heroes and myths... That is the poet's job, and Charles Plymell, a nation's poet, responded at the Literary Kicks Summer Poetry Happening.
Poetry Makes Its Move Move... reclaiming its oral roots.... That is the way we begin to respect all our individual voices: by hearing the poet in each of us.
...is great for business... but how 'bout for Poetry?? Credit the Triumph of Capitalism, the Nature of Beings, or the Powerlessness of Art...
An interview with poet/Telephone Books publisher Maureen Owen: Did I just call typing stencils romantic!!!?... To eat, sleep, dream, and sweat the work as one puts the book together....
Slam's 10th Anniversary, A NYC Perspective -- It's called a Poetry say-the-word Slam say-the-word. The Roller Derby of poetry.
His blend of personal and political illumines the roles of father, teacher, poet....
Hot time summer in the Po-Zone -- more books for the last summer of the old millennium.... Amy Ouzoonian, Philip Whalen, Onyx Spoken Word, Anselm Hollo, Anne Waldman, Jack Collom, David Henderson, Kimiko Hahn.
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Pere Ubu, Firesign Theatre, d.a. levy.... Caramba rhumba! Vacation vibration! Poetry sensation!
The reappearance of Frank Lima after twenty years... drawn out by the magnet flame of poetry, is to be taken as a sign. We are honored to be the first to allow you a taste of what is clearly destined to be a classic work.
A translation by Bob Holman: When asked to choose, Valéry responded “Isn't this like the way children eat cakes -- picking out the almonds to crunch, feeding the rest to the dog?”
Gates to the Academy of the Future Slam Wide Open! It's the Voice itself, bringing us the spoken and performed poem, that is driving poetry's resurgence.
Alternative distribution means of poetry, from the mimeo revolution of the 60s to Brazilian literatura de cordel, “poetry on a string.”
We invite you to partake in what we consider the absolute freefall of his bottomless barrel: William Topaz McGonagall's “The Tay Bridge Disaster.”
“Poetry lives on page as words in type, poetry lives on stage as words in body, challenge of CD is to let poetry live as words in air...”
Sherman Alexie and Patricia Smith went six rounds head-to-head, poem-to-poem, and in the end it all came down to the Improvisational 7th Round.
If you want to get in on the ground floor of what comes next for poetry, this CD is the place to start.
Editor of essential but out-of-print anthologies, Michael Benedikt has discovered the limitless possibilities of the Net & come roaring back.
As bombs drop on Kosovo... Take a long pull off the poem, Folks, the only alternative... Get close. Listen up. Dig in. Take notes. Stay smart. Eat Poetry.
David Shapiro on Open Mikes and Fame -- Just as Anonymous is the most prolific writer in English, so Open appears at more poetry performances than any other reading...
A review of the new CD from Anne McNaughton, Peter Rabbit & Mexican Bob, a Last Living Beat Jazz Poetry CD that is retro-future, porno, improv-laden, mean, charged, political.
Books by Luis Rodriguez, Koon Woon, Thylias Moss & June Jordan, CDs from David Vanadia & Tim Koberstein.
Bob Holman interviews miekal and & Maria Damon -- two collaborators who have created the most fully developed HTML poem on the Net, interwriting, a poem that weaves your mind in...
Robert Creeley Wins the Bollingen Prize! A cause for great celebration... Let us pause to praise and then let us party.
Eve Stern tells the story of National Poetry Month in the Peace Corps, teaching Literature as a Foreign Language in Suburbia.
The troupe performs in what were once farm houses, castles & factory complexes, ending their trek across Switzerland with a New Year's Eve party in Zurich.... Le Cirque Electrique has become a real circus.
Touring Switzerland with Le Cirque Electrique: The story of two American poets who ran away to join a Swiss rock'n'roll circus.
The Pollock takes its place beside our previous feature the Rothko as a new poetic form inspired by a painter.
The rest of our review of Robert Pinsky's new book: How he leaves perfpo out, and how Abbott and Costello got in.
A review of Robert Pinsky's new book: What's important is... the book's dedication to poetry as a spoken art.
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