So that ecstasy is not a movement to leave the body, but a movement of the whole body to join that which surrounds it – the literal mulch and stalk, sap and resonance everywhere around. That is the people there, as well – as surely growing there as the phloem and xylem of the vegetation […]

Dunn is the author of SOFT LAUNCH (Bootstrap Productions), CONVENIENT HOLE (Pressed Wafer), and INSECTS IN SEX (Falling Angels Press). His work has appeared in various publications including Let The Bucket Down, No Infinite, Shampoo, EOAGH, Polis, The Battersea Review, Jacket2 among others.  Audrey Mardavich lives in Dorchester, MA. She runs the 2×2 Reading Series in Boston. Her poems […]

We had some slight sound difficulties in the beginning, but hang in there! It’s worth it!

Michael Basinski is an American text, visual and sound poet. He is the curator of The Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo

Join Michael Boughn in a conversation of his new essay on Charles Olson, Empire and the thinking of America.