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Aerial (magazine)
''Aerial'' is an influential poetry magazine edited by Rod Smith and published by Aerial/Edge, based in Washington, D.C. Aerial/Edge also publishes Edge Books. The first issue of ''Aerial'' appeared in 1984. Edge Books began with its first publication in 1989. Beginning with Issue 6/7 (John Cage), ''Aerial'' has published a series of issues devoted to the work of individual poets within the avant-garde tradition, such as Bruce Andrews, Barrett Watten, and Lyn Hejinian. "''Aerial'' is focused primarily on the avant garde and the experimental, broadly defined", according to the magazine's website. This focus could be defined as a poetry and poetics that grew out of a counter-poetic tradition that took root in 20th-century North America. Today, some of the more recognizable of these avant-garde and experimental groups would include Black Mountain poets, the New York School, Language poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Broadly defined, the various groups and "schools" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Smith (poet)
Rod Smith (born 1962) is an American poet, editing, editor and publisher. Life He was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including ''In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy,'' and ''Music or Honesty''. He has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA. Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University, and was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the Spring of 2010. Smith is co-editor of ''The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley,'' along with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker (University of California Press, 2014). Publishing and the DC poetry community In 1984, along with Wayne Kline, Rod Smith began the journal Aerial (magazine), Aerial Magazine, a poetry magazine devoted to avant-garde and experimental writing. Soon after, Smith began publishing books under the name EDGE Books. Smith published the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Duncan (poet)
Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poetry, American poet and a devotee of H.D., Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black Mountain poets, Black Mountain College. Duncan saw his work as emerging especially from the tradition of Ezra Pound, Pound, William Carlos Williams, Williams and D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence. Duncan was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. Overview As a poet and intellectual, Duncan's presence was felt across many facets of popular culture. His name is prominent in the history of pre-Stonewall riots, Stonewall gay culture and in the emergence of Bohemianism, bohemian socialist communities of the 1930s and 1940s, in the Beat Generation, and in the cultural and political upheaval of the 1960s, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Magazines
Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * Alternative comics, or independent comics are an alternative to mainstream superhero comics * Alternative fashion, fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion. * Alternative manga, manga published outside the more commercial market, or which have different art styles, themes, and narratives to those found in the more popular manga magazines. * '' AlterNative'', academic journal * ''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film * ''The Alternative'', a radio show hosted by Tony Evans * ''120 Minutes'' (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as ''The Alternative'' *'' The American Spectator'', an American magazine formerly known as ''The Alternative: An American Spectator'' Music * Alternative dance, a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best American Poetry
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general editor of the series, each year contributes a foreword focusing on the state of contemporary poetry, and each year the edition's guest editor also contributes an introduction. The book titles in the series always follow the format of the first, changing only the year: for instance, '' The Best American Poetry 1988''. According to the Academy of American Poets website, "''Best American Poetry'' remains one of the most popular and best-selling poetry books published each year and the series continues to provide a bird's-eye view of the breadth of American poetry.""Great Anthol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclecticism In Art
Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them" . Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact that it was not a particular style. In general, the term describes the combination in a single work of a variety of influences—mainly of elements from different historical styles in architecture, painting, and the graphic and decorative arts. In music the term used may be either eclecticism or polystylism. In the visual arts The term eclectic was first used by Johann Joachim Winckelmann to characterize the art of the Carracci, who incorporated in their paintings elements from the Renaissance and classical traditions. Indeed, Agostino, Annibale and Lodovico Carracci had tried to combine in their art Michelangelo's line, Titian's color, Correggio's chiaroscuro, and Raphael's symmetry and grace. In the 18th century, Sir Joshua Reynolds, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, ''The Alphabet''. Life and work In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, and left without attaining a degree. He lived in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 40 years. Silliman classifies his poetry as part of a lifework, which he calls '' Ketjak'', a name refers to a form of Balinese dance drama based on an ancient text. "Ketjak" is also the name of the first poem of ''The Age of Huts''. If and when completed, the entire work will consist of ''The Age of Huts'' (1974–1980), ''Tjanting'' (1979–1981), ''The Alphabet'' (1979–2004), and ''Universe'' (2005-). Marriage and family In 1995 Silliman moved to Chester County, Pennsylv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose. Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book '' Versed'' which was also nominated for the National Book Award. ''Versed'' later received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Armantrout is now retired from her long tenure teaching at the University of California, San Diego, where she was Professor of Poetry and Poetics. Early life Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California. An only child, she was raised among military communities on naval bases, predominantly in San Diego. In her autobiography ''True'' (1998), she describes herself as having endured an insular childhood, a sensitive child of working class, Methodist fundamentalist parents. In 1965, while living in the Allied Gardens district with her parents, Armantrout attended San Diego State University, intendin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010) was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. Writes Hejinian: A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is ''Way'' (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award. Early life and education Scalapino was born in Santa Barbara, California and raised in Berkeley. She traveled throughout her youth and adulthood to Asia, Africa and Europe and her writing was intensely influenced by these experiences.Some of the other places Scalapino traveled included Tibet, Bhutan, Japan, India, Mongolia, Yemen, Libya In childhood Scalapino traveled with her father Robert A. Scalapino (founder of UC B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Seaton
Peter Seaton (December 16, 1942 – May 18, 2010) was an American poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely read and influential. Seaton was also a frequent contributor to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, one of the influential magazines and theoretical venues for Language poetry, co-edited by Charles Bernstein. In 1978, Bernstein published Seaton's first book of poetry, ''Agreement'', the same year that L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine made its first appearance. Some of Seaton's work from this time has been reprinted in ''The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book'' (1984). Seaton became an active participant in the thriving poetry scene in New York City during the 1960s. He shared this keen interest with Nick Piombino while both were attending City College of New York in the early-1960s, and they were to form a close friendship in the 1960s and 1970s. After graduation in 1964 both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Darragh
Tina Darragh (born 1950) is an American poet who was one of the original members of the Language group of poets. Biography Darragh was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the south suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, D.C. at Trinity University from 1970 to 1972. Between 1974 and 1976, she worked with Some of Us Press and at the Mass Transit community bookstore and writing workshop. Mass Transit, and after it Folio bookshop, became focal points for much of the poetic activity that was to result in the East Coast wing of the "Language" group, and here Darragh met other poets, including Susan Howe, Diane Ward, Doug Lang, Joan Retallack, and P. Inman, all of whom were also to become key members of the group. She and Inman are married and live in Greenbelt, Maryland. Darragh's extensive list of publications include ''on the corner to off the corner'' (1981), ''Striking Resemblance'' ( Burning Deck, 1988), ''a(gain)2 st the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bernstein (poet)
Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E or Language poets. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. and in 2019 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American prize for lifetime achievement, given on the occasion of the publication of ''Near/Miss''. From 1990 to 2003, Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo, where he co-founded the Poetics Program. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, ''All the Whiskey in Heaven'', was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ''The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein'' was published in 2012 by Salt Publishing and ''Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences'', ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Equi
Elaine Equi (born 1953) is an American poet. Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Both her parents emigrated from Italy in the 1920s. Since 1988 she has lived in New York City with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School. Widely published, her poems have appeared in ''Big Other'', ''The New Yorker'', ''American Poetry Review'', and numerous volumes of ''The Best American Poetry''. In April 2007 Coffee House Press published ''Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems''. Also in 2007 she edited a special section for ''Jacket Magazine'': The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All Occasions. Works * ''Federal Woman'' (Danaides, 1978) * ''Shrewcrazy'' (Little Caeser, 1981) *''The Corners of the Mouth'' (Iridescence, 1986) * ''Accessories'' (Figures, 1988) * ''Views Without Rooms'' (Hanuman Books, 1989) * ''Surface Tension'' (Coffee House, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
