Pre-order Despite the fact that it is 2020, and nearly 2021 when I write this, I want to remember Ian Dreiblatt’s Forget Thee as one of the great poetry books of the (post-) Occupy era. ...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2021/02/ian-dreiblatts-forget-thee.html
Thank you to my friends, family, colleagues, former students, and mentors who have subscribed to my Patreon . Your support made a tremendously difficult year a little easier. Below is a complete ...
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I Hate Poetry goes past the (recently and inexplicably controversial) ars poetica to question the reason for even being a poet. It is a refreshingly materialist answer to the tedious mystic...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2020/08/i-hate-poetry-at-adjunct-press-chapbook.html
I am grateful to have been able to participate in this reimagining of Boccaccio's The Decameron . Many thanks to Macushla Robinson, editor extraordinaire!
http://whof.blogspot.com/2020/07/journal-of-plague-journal-in-decameron.html
Two poems of mine just appeared in No Contact Issue 6 . Thank you to Nathaniel Berry and Guaraa Shekhar for inviting me to contribute!
http://whof.blogspot.com/2020/07/afterlives-and-different-way-to-destroy.html
Some new work from Left Melancholy Part 3, My Students has been published in La Belle Revue 10 . Thank you to the editors!
http://whof.blogspot.com/2020/07/in-lieu-of-statement-of-teaching.html
Here’s my contribution to Orchid Tierney’s wonderful Distantia video reading series, one of a book-length series of poems for and after Julius Eastman
http://whof.blogspot.com/2020/04/zurich-concert-at-distantia-video.html
I’ve got a little piece on Midsommar in this new journal, The Movement Image . Grateful to the editors and contributors, Paul Ebenkamp, Grant Kerber, Katy Burnett, and Jamie Townsend.
http://whof.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-movement-image-vol-1.html
November 9, 2019 4-6 PM @ Printed Matter Join us for a conversation between Sophie Seita and Thom Donovan, exploring Seita’s recent publication Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazin...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/11/provisional-avant-gardes-with-sophie.html
Throughout Selcer’s art writing and poetry the sun appears to us in so many aspects, both real and metaphorical. For instance, in her essay “Day and Night” she writes “We have a culture ...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/10/from-other-suns-on-anne-lesley-selcers.html
A few of my poems from EASTMAN, a new poetry ms., are up at Fence's beautiful Elecment . Profuse gratitude to Emily Wallis Hughes and her team for careful editing and inspiring design! Oh, and th...
Bittersweet to be part of this remembrance for a writer, community member, and friend without equal. I love you, Kevin!
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/07/kevin-killian-collectively-remembered.html
I was fortunate enough to meet Warren Niesluchowski a few years back during this interview at CUE with Simon Leung and Sreshta Rit Premnath. He was a gentle soul, and an incredibly relevant art...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/06/rip-warren-niesluchowski.html
Avi Alpert asked me and some others to write responses to Asad Haider's book Mistaken Identity for ASAP/Journal, so I did, here: http://asapjournal.com/i-tried-to-be-a-socialist-thom-donovan/?fb...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-tried-to-be-socialist-on-asad-haiders.html
Left Melancholic @ Patreon is an archive for writings and other materials dating back to 1999, including published and unpublished poems, essays, statements, notes, and criticism. It will also pr...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/06/left-melancholic-patreon.html
I have a contribution in this wonderful and curious anthology , edited by Carla Nappi and Dominic Pettman, devoted to “incoherent geography”!
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/04/dispatches-from-institute-of-incoherent.html
When in your life have you wanted to write, but couldn’t? When have you had to stop writing? How did this affect your sense of being a writer? How may it have changed your writing? In what ...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/04/overwritten-questionnaire.html
On Earth Day, The Poetry Project will host the East Coast launch of Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, edited by Linda Russo and Marthe Reed and published ...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/03/counter-desecration-collective.html
PUBLISHER-IN-RESIDENCE: UNBAG MARCH-APRIL 2019 Wendy's Subway is pleased to announce UNBAG as Publisher-in-Residence in March and April 2019. Join unbag and Wendy’s Subway for a s...
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The following readings and presentation have been added to my PennSound author page : Internal Presentation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2014 "Delays in Glass: S...
Thanks to friend and artist-editor extraordinaire Max Razdow for including an essay of mine (on occult poetics) in the 2nd issue of his journal, Speculative Arts Research . "What, I wonder, becom...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-occult-speculative-arts-research-vol.html
An introduction I gave for Eléna Rivera at the 92Y two springs ago has been happily archived as a micro review at Galatea Resurrects , regarding her incredible book Scaffolding.
http://whof.blogspot.com/2018/09/an-introduction-i-gave-for-elena-rivera.html
WEEK 1 MANIFESTOS Recommended book: Mary Ann Caws’s Manifestos (anthology) Exercise: With a critical sense of the manifesto as a “genre” of (art) writing, compose an original manifest...
http://whof.blogspot.com/2018/07/language-as-art-sequence-of-assignments.html
Reading "Semite" at Poets House's George Oppen Centennial Reading (a decade ago!)
http://whof.blogspot.com/2018/07/george-oppen-centennial-reading-audio.html
Compline has a new website with archived PDFs of books by David Brazil, Michael Cross, Thom Donovan, Craig Dworkin, Jackqueline Frost, Sara Larsen, CJ Martin, Leslie Scalapino, and Eleni Ste...