I was invited by the wonderful poet and teacher Kelly Moffett (http://www.kellymoffett.com/) to blog – somewhere, anywhere I wanted – and to tag the post as “the next big thing.” This is a mobile series of self-interviews that follow the nbt tag. I like the idea, so I’ve responded to the pre-set interview questions below. [...]

“Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have [...]

The inaugural issue of VLAK will be launched at the St Marks Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th St., New York, on the 27th of September, and at the Prague Microfestival Poetry Series in October. Contributors to VLAK 1.1 include Abigail Child, Holly Tavel, Marjorie Perloff, Alexander Jorgensen, Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, Stephanie Barber, John Wilkinson, [...]

Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there's a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

[LET THEM EAT CACHE] [currently on #feralC]: @QReada does indeed go “feral” + starts spouting cryptic comms: “[THE WROTE WRITES ROTTINGS ON THE WALL]” + “[LARGE CHARCOAL BLACK DOG WITH SNOW WHITE SAND OOZING EYES]” + “[LET THEM EAT CACHE]” + “[SMALL SUEDE TAN CAT WITH SANDPAPER CLAWS]” etc… @pupa_mistress warns @QReada 2 stop but [...]

[...over in #feralC Twitterland theres lots-a-foamin': @Miss_Stressa is incommunicado. @HUD_B is trying to help @QReada + has worked out how to decipher his/her QR code(s). @shadowmcclone is taciturn as usual. @gossama game chats 2 Shane Hinton and is concerned about the absence of @Miss_Stressa. @jr_carpenter also chats to @gossama about her suspicions that @Miss_Stressa may [...]

common practice/language Texts by mez breeze 3 June, 5pm-8pm Reading Room in Arnolfini and online at http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice contact common_practice on Skype to join the session (next sessions: 24 June, 9 and 30 September) Italo Calvino said 'the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures [...]

[From Jeremy Hight, Curator:] “Happy to announce that th fast cash advance e latest in the series “Line of Influence”(Binary Katwalk) looking at an important and influential artist, their influences and in who they see a kinship….now live with the brilliant writer/artist MEZ.” zp8497586rq

Part 1 is here. The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in [...]

I have been thinking a bit about the question of “poetics” and what it means:  Does it refer to poetry specifically?  Does it refer theories of literature?  Or can it be loosened to denote theory, in general?  These distinctions have been in play for some time time, as definitions of poetry, literature and theory have [...]