Are you ready for #AWP14?

If you’re looking for something to read, here’s a translation of Yi Sang’s short story “Record of a Consummation” (translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl & Walter K. Lew).

The challenge is to analyze a history of effects other than by seeking to identify personifiable causes, to recognize that nevertheless the struggle is taking place as much among personifications as among persons, and to intervene to transform the social allegory without either buying into, or dismissing, the temptations of readability. For the necessity of reading and being read is a dream from which we cannot awaken.

— Barbara Johnson, The Wake of Deconstruction

Two new responses to Calvin Bedient’s Boston Review essay “Against Conceptualism” that are worth a read:

Drew Gardner: Flarf is Life: The Poetry of Affect

Rachel Galvin: Lyric Backlas

Short notice, but for those of you in Chicago, tomorrow night will see a plum event as the Danny’s Reading Series convenes, 7:30pm sharp at Danny’s in Bucktown (1951 W. Dickens, just off Damen). Reading will be Barry Schwabsky, Mark Yakitch, and the incomparable Virginia Konchan. As always, a DJ and dancing will follow.

Which would you rather do, write or eat potatoes? You must choose one.

Poems-in-reference @ Smoking Glue Gun :)

Send Coconut a poem in the next 5 hours to make it into a limited-edition broadside.

They make v sexy broadsides, fyi.

Details here on their FB page.

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i know everyone lives in brooklyn, so don t miss out on macaulay culkin s pizza band, which is playing somewhere in brooklyn later tonight!! or at least that s what i heard at this very hip coffee shop black brick today, which was freezing cold btw. also, the barristas were rude, but oh whatever, it was all worth it to see that girl in moonboots & balenciaga.

anyway, this book, looks AMAZING, no? i mean, i dunno, but i dig the trailer.

(so yeah, i wonder what everyone is reading, actually. but if you want to talk about things you re watching that is also fine. why not?)