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Kent Johnson

KENT JOHNSON is currently about to have a nervous breakdown, trying to put together three online courses for the Fall semester at his community college. Michael Theune discusses his work further in the current issue of Pleiades.

WILLIAM CARLOS WRITES EZRA POUND THE DAY AFTER HIROSHIMA by Kent Johnson

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Kent Johnson

When the crazy tracers, the first time, went crazy-up over Baghdad, it was all so stunning (against the grainy green), and we were dying to giggle, and we did—just a bit of tittering. And then the buildings on video started exploding, it got sort of hard to keep from chortling. Astounding, shouted the naïve crowd […]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2010

JOHNSON’S REPLY by Kent Johnson

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Kent Johnson, Nicholas Manning

Greetings to you over there, in the 5th or 7th arrondissement. You’d asked me some months back if I might wish to respond. I wrote you back, you’ll recall, and said I thought it best to let your review stand alone. But yesterday, the folks from MAYDAY wrote me and asked, as well, that I say something […]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2010

A LETTER TO KENT JOHNSON by Nicholas Manning

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Kent Johnson, Nicholas Manning

Paris, 4th of October 2009     Dear Kent, I’ve decided to write this review of your book Homage to the Last Avant-Garde in the form of a letter to you, and this for several reasons. Firstly, it allows me to negate certain censorious aspects of normative critical discourse via recourse to the mode of tonally ambiguous epistolary, which […]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2010

Contributor Bios for Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

Issue 2 Winter 2010 TAO AIMIN is known for her anthropological works made from the washboards of rural woman. Over the years she has collected thousands of these boards, recording the stories and faces of the women whose hands wore these boards down through the recursive repetition of monotonous labor. Creating installations and experimental ink […]

Filed Under: Contributor Bios Posted On: January 1, 2010

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

ART curated by Maya Kóvskaya PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE: Dialogical Space & Multiple Modernities in Asian Contemporary Art ART NONFICTION Maya Kóvskaya Public Action Art and Performative Interventions in the Chinese Public Sphere ART NONFICTION William Hurst (performance photography by Han Bing) ORPHANS OF PROGRESS: Workers and Political Discourse in Post-Socialist China ART […]

Filed Under: Issues Posted On: January 1, 2010

SOME DARKER BOUQUETS: A ROUNDTABLE

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Ange Mlinko, David Orr, Don Share, Eric Lorberer, Kent Johnson, Maureen McLane

Note: The following letter responds to an editorial comment and three reviews by Jason Guriel, published in the March, 2009 issue of Poetry. Because portions of this letter were initially posted at Poetry’s online version, it could not be included in the print version of the magazine. In any case, the issues broached here regarding practices of reviewing in […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Nonfiction Posted On: April 1, 2009

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