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Co-Founder's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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Reviews of relatively recent works of poetry and poetics, mostly by poets.
– edited by Charles Bernstein
Art
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PAM GROSSMAN with Jessica Caroline
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AGNÈS VARDA with Alexandra Juhasz
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SIMON STARLING with Marcia E. Vetrocq
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Blur and Fuzz
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ROE ETHRIDGE with Amy Ontiveros
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Allan McCollum with Phong Bui
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Barry Schwabsky with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
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Aleksandar Duravcevic: Steppenwolf
– By Alexandra Fowle -
Threads of Fire and Water and Gold
– By Laila Pedro -
The Power of Suggestion: Rhonda Wheatley
– By William Corwin -
Romare Bearden: Bayou Fever and Related Works
– By Jessica Holmes -
Sputterances, organized by Sanya Kantarovsky
– By Stephen Truax -
Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell
– By Tim Barry -
Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III
– By Hannah Sage Kay -
A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC - 200 AD
– By Sara Christoph -
Nina Chanel Abney Royal Flush
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Al Taylor Early Paintings
– By Tom McGlynn -
Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
Sue Williams
– By Jessica Holmes -
Alexei Jawlensky
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Rene Ricard: So, Who Left Who?
– By Charles Schultz -
Paul Chan Rhi Anima
– By Ian Cofre -
Marsden Hartley’s Maine
– By Noah Dillon -
Simone Fattal
– By Phillip Griffith -
Merce Cunningham Common Time
– By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert -
A Whole Culture: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston's 2017 Foster Prize
– By Leah Harrington -
Tattooed New York
– By Hovey Brock -
EJ Hauser ME + YOU
– By Stephen Truax -
JOS DE GRUYTER and HARALD THYS Xanax Film Festival
– By Erin Sweeny -
The Garden of Eden
– By Phong Bui -
SANDRO CHIA
– By Jonathan Goodman
Critics Page
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Philippe Soupault, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
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Andrew Dodds, I, Sparkie
– By Derek Beaulieu -
Erín Moure, My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice
– By Caroline Bergvall -
Daniil Kharms, Russian Absurd: Selected Writings
– By Charles Bernstein -
Moez Surani, ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация
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Tom Raworth, As When
– By Miles Champion -
David Antin, i never knew what time it was
– By Cecilia Corrigan -
Adam Fitzgerald, George Washington: Poems
– By Samuel R. Delany -
Gavin Selerie, Hariot Double
– By Johanna Drucker -
Tracie Morris, handholding: 5 kinds
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J. H. Prynne, The White Stones
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Tonya M. Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court
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Abdellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems
– By Pierre Joris -
Simone White, Of Being Dispersed
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Barbara Guest, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
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Sawako Nakayasu, The Ants
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Keith Waldrop, Selected Poems
– By Mark McMorris -
Édgar J. Ulloa Luján, Move that River to the Sea
– By Tracie Morris -
Will Alexander, “Live at the Roosevelt Room,” Detroit, August 24, 2016
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Martin Mueller, The Iliad
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Mia You, I, too, Dislike It
– By Lisa Robertson -
Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry
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Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Egress
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Renee Gladman, Calamities
– By Juliana Spahr -
Ted Greenwald, The Age of Reasons & Common Sense
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M. NourbeSe Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
– By Elizabeth Willis -
Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of the Archives
– By Mia You
Books
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Traces of Humanity
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Radical Empathy: A Manifesto for the 21st Century
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Fostering A More Socially-Conscious Narrative Olivia Kate Cerrone with David Winner
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Up Against the Wall, Magician
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Florida Records
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What's the Point of Love?: Sarah Gerard with Christine Sang
Music
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Five Pieces at the Kitchen Exploring the Space Between 1 and 0
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Five Pieces at the Kitchen The Beautiful and the Good
– By George Grella -
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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"Attention Online Shoppers..."
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The Expansive Harmonium
– By Michael Blair -
The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
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Outtakes
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Brooklyn Rail Wintry Mix
– by the Editors
Dance
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Divining the Shadows Okwui Okpokwasili’s Poor People’s TV Room
– By Ivan Talijancic -
Adding Words to Phrases: the conversation continues between Whelan and Brooks
– By Jen George -
A Bicycle is Loved and Lost, Orgasm Found
– By Mike Stinavage and Michael Parmelee -
Last Love Letter
– By Nancy Dalva
Film
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THEO ANTHONY with Dan Sullivan
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Notes from the 2017 True/False Festival
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Mapping a History of Activist Real Estate A new online project reveals the hidden history of a pioneering nonprofit
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On Paul Sharits An Excerpt from “I Was a Flawed Modernist”
– By Tony Conrad -
Bad Blood, Honest Work Blood on the Mountain
– By Vanessa Thill -
Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe Part III of III
– By Madison Brookshire
Theater
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A Vivifying Spectacle Target Margin Theater’s Mourning Becomes Electra
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Begetting Charleses: Carl Holder
– By Ying Ying Li -
Following the Cinematic-Theatric with Sara Farrington
– By Connie Congdon
Fiction
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The Perpetually Barking Man in the Best of All Possible Worlds
– by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Alyson Waters -
In Your Element
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Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle
– by Elise Galmard, translated from the French by Jenessa Abrams -
inSerial: part seven Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 7: Caswell's Inkfan Lizard (polyphonia metamorphica)
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an extract from The Fifth Wall
– By Rachel Nagelberg -
excerpts from Gnome
– By Robert Lunday -
Easter Sunday
– By Tom Daly -
New Routes in Fiction A talk with Jonathan Lee
– by Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
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Eight
– By Mike Hauser -
Six
– By Tony Leuzzi -
Four
– By Elaine Kahn -
Two
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from TANKA/ZANKA
– By Sho Sugita -
Two
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Alyson Hannigan Ordered Me To Be Made
– By Nick Sturm -
Winter Writing
– By Brenda Coultas
Verbatim
Art Books
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Becoming Imperceptible
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Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter
– By Alyssa Collura -
The Weight of the World
– By Avra Spector -
Reading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice
– By Megan N. Liberty
Field Notes
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Editor's Note
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Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now Part Two
– By Jason E. Smith -
Behind the Myths: A Review
– By Peter St. Clair
The Well
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Bemelmans Bar
– By Mitchell Kuga
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