Network News: August and September

A memorial for Jerome Rothenberg took place on June 24th: you can view the memorial, and/or listen to it, over at Penn Sound.

Patricia Spears Jones is taking part in Procession of Angels, an initiative conceived by artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons and organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy in partnership with Harlem Art Park, which invites participants to walk from Harlem Art Park to Madison Square Park, retracing historical paths to shape an inclusive future. Patricia is reading on Friday September 20, in the second procession (9am-2pm) at the Gathering Site of the 1917 Silent Parade. Other poets taking part include Willie Perdomo, Major Jackson, and Marina Ortiz, among others. Details here. As Poet Laureate of New York, Patricia is one of the recipients of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship: https://poets.org/academy-american-poets-2024-poet-laureate-fellows. With the award, she will develop and implement a series of intergenerational workshops that will foster conversations about social justice, environmental degradation, systemic oppression, and cultural resistance, and what beauty means.

Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet (Roadside Press, 2024), a collection edited by Michele Mcdannold, includes memoir, poems, biography, interviews and literary criticism by an array of contributors such as Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders and Nina Zivancevic, among others.

Simon Warner has compiled an Anne Waldman Discography: find out more about this great resource and archive here. Simon's Substack also features a great interview between Anne and Jim Cohn. Jim reviewed Anne's spoken word discography in 2024 based on her catalog available at Fast Speaking Music (https://fastspeakingmusic.bandcamp.com/), the record label she formed with her son, Ambrose Bye, which is hosted online by Bandcamp. The interview celebrates essential works, musical genres and themes from across Waldman's 50-year experimental spoken word and music trajectory and encourages readers to listen along. Waldman and No Land's The Velvet Wire has been published by Granary Books, and is gorgeous. Waldman's Rues Du Monde has been published in French
in Algeria with APIC Press (Gen. Editor Habib Tengour), with translation by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte. Anne will be reading at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC, on October 3rd.

In the summer issue of Poetry London Joey Connolly revisits his childhood diary and poems by John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop to think about gender identity and desire in modern poetry.

Peter Gizzi read from Fierce Elegy at Foyles in London in mid-July. He wrote a great piece for Foyles that touched on aspects of what was discussed in the Q&A afterwards, about the importance of elegy, the 'I' pronoun in the lyric, and more...

Rowland Bagnall has recently written a review of Oli Hazzard's Sleepers Awake, with references to Bernadette Mayer, John Ashbery, Matt Bevis, Jess Cotton, Stephen Ross, and Peter Gizzi, and a piece for LARB on Bernadette Mayer's Memory.

In June 2024, the papers of Lewis Warsh were made officially open to researchers in The Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. You can see the Collective Overview and Description, and arrange to see the papers, here: https://archives.nypl.org/brg/35928.

Trace Peterson's The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep won the Alma Book Award from Saturnalia Books and is forthcoming in 2025.

The new issue of Paideuma contains Nick Sturm's dossier "Jim Brodey: Electrified Prose," with an intro titled  "The Human Shredder," 60-odd pages of Brodey's autobiographical & critical writing packed with his "outsider vibrancy," and his interview w/Vincent Katz from 1983.

Jacket2 is seeking to celebrate Lyn Hejinian's life and work by publishing a collection of microtexts and short videos in her honor. You are invited to submit work to this feature by writing a short critical, reflective, creative, and/or essayistic response to Lyn's work - or by recording a short video commentary or remembrance to share at Jacket2. Submissions will be considered for possible publication in 2025. Please see the attached CFP for details, and contact Laynie Browne ([email protected]) if you need further information.

Joanna Fuhrman's new book Data Mind, a collection of darkly comic prose poems about the internet, is out October 15th with Northwestern University Press. Northwestern UP has an end of summer sale, so any book you order from them by September 3rd is 50% off. Use the code “DOGDAYS.” Order here. More details about the book, including upcoming reading dates, can be found here.

Stephanie Anderson has a new chapbook, Bearings, out from DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, and a poetic essay in the latest print issue of Gulf Coast. She also has an article about Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff's baseball announcing experiments in Textual Practice, in a special issue about the Mimeograph Revolution, edited by Douglas Field and James Riley, and also featuring an article by Daniel Kane and one by Sophie Seita. Stephanie has also written an article about women midcentury small press editor-publishers, including several affiliated with the NYS, in Post45. Finally, All This Thinking is now out in paperback!

Hazel Smith, who many of us will know as the author of the brilliant Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, has recently published a poetry and image collaboration with artist Sieglinde Karl-Spence, called Heimlich Unheimlich --a work about the aftermath of World War 11, intergenerational trauma, migration and belonging. The book, which consists of photographic and textual collages, can be bought from the Apothecary Archive website apothecaryarchive.com/the-apothecary-archive-press-1/ogv0wzzkkjl7bfpnx7hw66n8zs9hr6 . International sales are no problem, if you order from the Apothecary Archive site, copies will in most cases be printed in your own country and will reach you in a very timely manner without additional postage costs. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

If you're UK-based, Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival is returning September 13th-15th with a vibrant programme of performances, open mics, workshops, theatre, typewriter busking, and so much more! All with the stunning backdrop of the Yorkshire Dales. Headliners include: Amelia Loulli, Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin, Rachel Mann, Elizabeth Train-Brown, Ray, Sharena Lee Satti, Hazel Mehmet, and Teague. You can find out more and get a ticket here.

Jenn Soong has a new essay in Critical Inquiry on the pronoun "it" and lyric - the essay engages with examples by Wieners, O'Hara, Dickinson, and R.S. Thomas, among others. You can read it here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/PNSGUFDFAN3M9CCH3RGS/full?redirectUri=/doi/epdf/10.1086/731567