May 13, 2023

The Last International Poetry Dog Day

This would have been the 15th birthday of Barney, the famous Poetry Dog - he missed it by one month. We have been touched by the outpouring of condolence for him. So I thought a last acknowledgement of his status in the Poetry World was a suitable memorial. 

Ron Silliman, Tony Lopez, Tony Trehy, Christian Bök (Text Festival)




Genius

Finally, I have finished ‘Genius’, my socialist riposte/rewriting of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos. I’ve blogged previously about my reasoning f...