Tag Archives: Robert Fitterman

Telephone #1

September 15, 2010 – 3:59 pm

This special episode of Phoned-In features poems from issue #1 of the journal Telephone. Click through to hear twelve poets read their translations of a poem by Uljana Wolf and to read an interview with editors Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault.

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Performa09—Week 2 Round-up

November 18, 2009 – 1:22 pm

Shana Moulton's THE UNDISCOVERED ANTIQUE as part of Art in General's ERRATIC ANTHROPOLOGIES. Image courtesy Art in General.
Alexandre Singh’s “The Alkahest,” Omer Fast’s “Talk Show,” Shana Moulton’s “Erratic Anthropologies,” and Tan Lin’s “Chalk Playground”/”LitTwitChalk” On Monday, November 9th, I attended the first of four performances by Alexandre Singh at White Columns gallery in the West Village. When I arrived chairs were arranged in a circle in the gallery, facing an overhead projector. As the performance began the lights went off and the audience could hear a voice starting to tell a story.

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Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place’s NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS

October 2, 2009 – 3:00 pm

notes-on-conceptRobert Fitterman and Vanessa Place’s book Notes On Conceptualisms is one of the first books to take on the term “conceptualism” in relation to recent practices in contemporary poetry, offering a preliminary textbook on the subject. There is a lot to unpack in this tiny book (the book is pocket-size, and comes to 76 pages). One of the first things a reader notices is the book’s organization through “notes.”

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