I’ve been curious about this new press that opened shop in Santa Monica a few years ago but hadn’t had the chance to check out the journal, or meet the editors, until I bumped into them at AWP in Seattle earlier this month. I’m going to try to drag them out to the Poetic Research Bureau soon, but in the meantime, here’s the website of L.A.’s latest avant-garde pranksters, theNewerYork Press.
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The L.A. Telephone Book, Vol. 2
The L.A. Telephone Book Vol. 2 2012-13 is a collection of new work by contemporary Southern California writers and text-artists available for free download.
Volume 1 (2011-12) is also available for free download.
Including new work by:
Will Alexander
Diana Arterian
Thérèse Bachand
Molly Bendall
Guy Bennett
Byron Campbell
Geneva Chao
Andrew Choate
j.s. davis
Larkin Higgins
Erin Jourdan
Siel Ju
Janice Lee
Deborah Meadows
Béatrice Mousli
Dennis Phillips
William Poundstone
David Shook
Chris Stoffolino
Daniel Tiffany
AJ Urquidi
The volume is free for download from Mediafire (see links below).
The collection was created based on a semi-open call to writers and artists for up to 7 pages of work, set in 6 x 9 in .pdf format, which were then assembled into the present file. All choices were made by the artists and presented as they created it. Several artists contributed notes and statements about their work.
https://www.mediafire.com/?58d0d39mmv13bdy
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Kevin Young | April 17 2014, 7:30pm
Kevin Young is the author of Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and Jelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times notable book for 2012, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and winner of the PEN Open Award. His new volume of poems is Book of Hours.
Circle
Circle Poetry Journal, a creation of recent UCLA graduate students, has just launched their second issue and is on the hunt for submissions. Send in your work!
Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand
Here’s a link to my recent essay published by Area Sneaks on conceptual writing practices in Los Angeles. Free for download from the Poetic Research Bureau.
Interview with Daniel Tiffany
The Conversant speaks to USC Poet and Professor Daniel Tiffany about his latest book, Neptune Park.
Andy Fitch: In Neptune Park’s epigraph, Strabo, the Roman geographer, declares, “I shrink from giving too many of the names, shunning the unpleasant task of writing them down—unless it comports with the pleasure of someone.” I’m interested in the role preemptive or productive apology plays in your poetics. Who are some of your favorite apologizers? Robert Walser comes to mind, perhaps Joe Brainaird.
Daniel Tiffany: I haven’t thought this through carefully, whether Strabo’s statement suggests strategic calculation or an embarrassed admission. I like the way he doesn’t just apologize for the obscurity of certain names and places but acknowledges his hope of “comporting” with someone’s pleasure. I appreciate an apologetics qualified by the hope that someone out there just might want to hear terribly dull things. I also love Strabo’s way of cataloging obscure places, tribes, peoples he has heard or read about—almost as an obligation, from a sense of duty.
Small Po[r]tions | Issue 1
The first issue of Small Po[r]tions, co-founded by UCLA Graduate Sarah Baker and a host of other editors at the Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell program, is now online!
Spring 2014 Schedule
Featuring Kim Calder (UCLA), Lisa Mendelman (UCLA), Renee Hudson (UCLA), Arne DeBoever (CalArts) and Jessica Lewis Luck (CSUSB).
Chris Nealon & Daniel Tiffany | March 15, 7:30
Chris Nealon is the author of two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century, as well as two books of poems, The Joyous Age and Plummet, and a recent chapbook, The Dial. His next book of poems, Heteronomy, will be out from Edge Books later this year. He teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Washington, DC.
Daniel Tiffany is the author of a chapbook, along with nine volumes of poetry and literary theory, most recently including My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (Johns Hopkins University Press) Neptune Park (Omnidawn). His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, New American Writing, jubilat, Verse, Lana Turner, and other magazines. Tiffany has also published translations of texts by Sophocles and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, as well as Georges Bataille’s pornographic tale, Madame Edwarda. He has been awarded the Chicago Review Poetry Prize, a Whiting Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize in 2012 by the American Academy.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm
The Poetic Research Bureau @ 951 CKR
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles
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