Icelandic Poets on ditch,

ditch, has a special feature on English poems by Icelanders curated by a. rawlings.

Cool.

Please check it out here.

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ditch, snare, etc.

This month's featured poet on ditch is Matrix editor and Snare Books publisher, Jon Paul Fiorentino.

There's also an interesting interview with ditch and Trainwreck Press editor, John C. Goodman. Some of Goodman's poems can be read in pax americana #9: pax americanada. And read the interview with John C. Goodman here.

I saw Jon Paul Fiorentino recently at the Montreal Expozine and picked up three of Snare's recent books: All our grandfather's are ghosts by Pasha Malla, Jack by Mike Spry, and Variations on Holderlin by Geoffrey Hlibchuk, the winner of the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Should make for some good holiday reading. So far I've been flipping through Pasha Malla's collection and it's hilarious!

derek beaulieu on ditch,

This month's featured poet on ditch, is derek beaulieu with excerpts from his book fractal economies.

beaulieu is one of fourteen talented Canadian poets appearing in the upcoming special Canadian poetry issue of pax americana that I edited. Keep an eye out for it later this week!

About fractal economies:

In fractal economies, derek beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics by grinding language through the mill of photocopiers, found material, collage, printmaking, frottage and Letraset—creating a new language for the genre. These “fractal economies,” or series of increasingly complex replications of forms through the repeated application of a fixed set of rules, challenge the status quo of poetry and of the politics of language itself, which is, with respect to any human script yet deciphered, capitalist in its very origin. Letters are freed from their “normal” behavior, machines are let loose to create on their own and the borders between poetry and artwork are blurred. In an intriguing and well-argued afterword, beaulieu also theorizes ways that concrete poetry—poetry that deals with language in a physical, material way—can move forward into the twenty-first century beyond the limitations of the page, the author and even the poem itself.

Check out derek beaulieu's poetry here.

Oblivion Avenue Just a Mouse Click Away

Getting your own copy of Oblivion Avenue has been made even easier now that Trainwreck Press has a Web Store where you can purchase my chapbook along with 15 other titles online through the magic of PayPal.

View Trainwreck Press' Web Store here.

Geoffrey Hlibchuk on ditch,

Geoffrey Hlibchuk, winner of the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, has a poem posted on ditch,.

Read it here.

You can read more about Geoffrey Hlibchuk and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry here.