Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a
variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has …

From her time as a young performance poet in New York in the late 1960s to her current
position as punk rock's éminence grise, Patti Smith has foregrounded the image of the poet …

The journal Shi 'r (1957–70) was an avant-garde poetic journal founded in Beirut which
became a centre of various types of poetic and cultural practice. Over the course of time, the …

Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day both articulate a domestic
quotidian devoted to what Rita Felski in Doing Time calls “the repetitive tasks of social …

A s we read through various interviews with punk rock icon Richard Hell and Hell's own
published work as a poet and novelist, we might very well be struck by the way writers …

Poet, novelist, critic, and playwright Kevin Killian watched scores of writers and artists die in
the 1980s and 1990s. Many of them were his close friends. Faced with a crisis that offered …

Discussions about the New York School of poetry are yoked to a rhetoric of generations, a
situation that is unique among the aesthetic lineages generated out of Donald Allen's …

In this article I consider the impact of New York school poetry and New York punk rock on
the Los Angeles literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s. I explore a distinct group of poets …

A “rtists’ Page 182 Coda Connective Devices Collaborative Artists’ Books in the Twenty-First
Century A “rtists’ books,” artist, printer, teacher, and Primrose Press founder Tia Blassingame …

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a
tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O'Hara, Ted …