In 1949, the poet Jack Spicer was beginning his graduate studies and working as a teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley. Soon he became wrapped up in political circumstances tha
New recordings of 16th–20th century poems read by Toni Bowers — including poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Katherine Phillips, Charlotte Mew, and others — can be found HERE at PennSound. Bowers provi
The Subtext Reading Series was a collaborative effort by Seattle-area writers and readers interested in new writing. The series ran for fifteen years, from 1995–2009. Each month, Subtext paired establ
“Landscape,” Lyn Hejinian writes, is “a vibrational field of reversible effects” (The Language of Inquiry, 106). One way to describe my first encounter with Lyn’s work would be to say that it was, in
I emailed Susan Schultz about madness (May 28, 2024): “I really believe there is some general madness becoming more and more prevalent and pervasive in everything — from state policy to personal emoti
Syntax, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, syntagma, paramoiosis, redundancy, dictionaries, adjectivization; unifying strophes, determinate semantic groups, the subject, neologisms, verbs, r
Languages employ signs to substitute objects from the external world to express and communicate messages. One no longer shows a tree, one says “that tree.” The representation of the tree by means of a
Historically, the content of a text has generally been considered as having a separate existence from its physical manifestation as print. Western Literature was originally oral, and though later comm
