Poet, publisher, and artist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright discusses his new collection of sonnets and collages, Doppelgängster — as well as how all the doubles in his life as a poet add up to a singular, ongoing practice.
Interviewed by Jim Feast
To purchase issue #110 using Paypal, click here.To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain Taxi delivered to your door, click here. INTERVIEWS Judith Margolis and Philip Miller: Let Us Now Praise Emptiness | interviewed by Yael SamuelRebecca Goodman: Why Write About the Shoah Now? | interviewed by David MoscovichYxta Maya Murray: Art and […]
Edited by Jessica Hundley and Pam GrossmanTaschen ($40) by Patrick James Dunagan What makes a witch a witch, and what is witchcraft for? These are among the central questions explored in the lavishly illustrated Witchcraft, the latest release in Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. Images of witches throughout the ages and in various styles are […]
Gabriel Kruis Archway Editions ($14.95) by David Brazil In meteorology, a virga is a streak of precipitation that appears to be attached to the undersurface of a cloud and usually evaporates before reaching the ground. Gabe Kruis’s debut book, which moves back and forth between the author’s home of New Mexico (where virgae are frequently […]
by Jim Feast Before Barbara Henning moved to New York City in 1984, she already had a reputation in Detroit as a poet. Her first reading in NYC was at St. Marks Poetry Project, and her first collection, Smoking in the Twilight Bar, was published by Lewis Warsh (United Artists Books, 1988). Recently, United Artists […]
After twenty-five years of publishing its print journal, Conduit Books & Ephemera launched a book publishing division in 2018. It did so with two book prizes for poetry: the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize, judged by Bob Hicok, and the Minds On Fire Open Book Prize, judged by Conduit’s editorial board. In the following piece, […]
Interviewed by Scott F. Parker John T. Lysaker is a professor of philosophy at Emory University and the author of several books, including the recently published Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought (University of Chicago Press, $35) and Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Oxford University Press, $14.95). I met John when I […]
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Letters to Poets ANSELM BERRIGAN Anselm Berrigan is the author of the recent Some Notes on My Programming, Zero Star Hotel, and Integrity & Dramatic Life, published by Edge Books. A CD, Pictures for Private Devotion, is available through Narrow House Records. With his mother Alice Notley and brother Edmund Berrigan he has co-edited The Collected Poems of Ted […]
APHRODITE'S BACK: A VALENTINE REVEAL with Harriet Bart, Nor Hall, and Franz Kamin The Southern Theater — February 14th, 2005 Valentine's Day was celebrated in style with a sold-out show blending writing, sculpture, and music by these esteemed Twin Cities artists. Nor Hall presented a scintillating illustrated discursus on eros; Franz Kamin and fellow musicians […]