Editors' Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. What is “avant-garde poetry”? is a question long on answers, if short on consensus. On the one ...

Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week Jake Marmer writes about “Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture.” Last year’s ...

I’ve never quite bought the old witticism, attributed to the Irishman George Bernard Shaw, that Britain and the United States are “two nations divided by a common language.” But while there’s a ...

Editors’ Note: When we talk about the context of literary production, gender and race (rightly) get a lot of space for debate and discussion, but talking about class makes us squirm. To confront, ...

I start with the basic proposition that avant-garde poetry foregrounds language (rather than external signifiers of ‘reality’) as the basic raw material. From this a number of other presumptions ...

"Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time illuminates the work of five women who took radical risks in their lives and in their art. Inspired and challenged by Chicago, they helped ...

Installation view of Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s in the proper direction: forward/ also the ache of (perceived) velocity at Printed Matter, New York (all images courtesy the artist and Printed Matter) ...

Once, in my youth, I took a graduate philosophy seminar I thought would be about law and justice: Instead we discussed the semantic implications of punctuation marks. After class, I found myself ...