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A year ago, Steve Lacy, the greatest soprano sax of his generation, died. A great friend to poets, Steve had been a major force in my life ever since I met him in Rotterdam...

I abandon sculpture engraving and painting to dedicate myself entirely to song. pablo picasso to jaime sabartés, april 1936 Friday, June 3, 7:00-9:00 p.m.P.S.1Le Rosier Cafe Free and open to the public. This event...

Clayton Eshleman turns seventy today. Many happy returns! Thinking of Jonathan Mayhew’s questionnaire & the often fascinating responses it generated, I thought it could be fun & useful to reproduce an interview Eshleman gave...

Ernesto Livon-Grosman just announced that Boston College has uploaded the first two components of XULdigital . These include a digital edition of the complete journal XUL: Signo viejo y nuevo and The XUL Reader....

Back in the U.S.S.A — more as I get de-jetlagged — but my thoughts are still with the resonant NO the French referendum threw in the face of the possibility of a political (rather...

In his May 27 blog entry, responding to a question by Jonathan Mayhew, Ron has this comment on the intentions Jerry Rothenberg & I supposedly had when putting together volume 2 of ¨Poets for...

Finally out! The complete one-volume edition of Allen Fisher’s first long poem Place arrived in the mail from Reality Street Editions (http://freespace.virgin.net/reality.street/). Witnessing the elaboration of Place during the seventies in London was a...

A better article can be found in Libération: http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=298162

Though I didn’t follow his work that closely anymore, news of his passing immediately brings to mind London days in the early seventies, reading The Rule of Metaphor and the discussions that followed with...