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Images of When the USSR Was an “Ally of Black Liberation Causes”

Avatar photo by Allison Conner February 15, 2022February 18, 2022

Most of the media was created to disseminate Communist principles, particularly anti-racism and anti-colonialism.

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A Window Into the Workings of Small Presses

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty July 17, 2021July 16, 2021

A Poetics of the Press illustrates how invaluable firsthand accounts are to historicize a moment and medium.

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A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty

Avatar photo by Mark Scroggins April 17, 2021April 16, 2021

The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.

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A New Bookselling Platform Challenges Amazon’s Monopoly

by Hakim Bishara March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

“Directing readers to buy their books from Amazon is harmful to the authors, and the publishers, whose work you are trying to support,” reads a letter encouraging independent media resources to use platforms like Bookshop.

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Ugly Duckling Presse Celebrates 25 Years with a Benefit Party

by Ugly Duckling Presse March 6, 2019March 6, 2019

Come celebrate the first 25 years of UDP with a benefit party to honor Burning Deck Press and Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop, on Tuesday, March 19 at The Bell House in Brooklyn.

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Mirtha Dermisache’s Writing Is a Rorschach test

Avatar photo by Louis Bury June 24, 2018June 24, 2018

Dermisache’s drawings posture as communication yet undercut it through illegibility.

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A Russian Poet Recounts Literary Life in 1966

Avatar photo by Noel Black February 3, 2018February 4, 2018

Soviet-era poet Igor Kholin describes social realities of life among the writers living in cultural exile outside Moscow.

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Mónica de la Torre’s Poems Reimagine an Iconic Martin Kippenberger Artwork

by Anselm Berrigan January 7, 2018January 7, 2018

In these enigmatic poems, de la Torre’s mode of direct address seeks to put the reader into a trance.

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Hirato Renkichi: The Black Shadow-Man Illuminated

by Douglas Messerli April 16, 2017April 14, 2017

Already in the three short volumes which Hirato had hoped to publish, but for which he was unable to raise money, we see a growing tendency to break up the language and images, abstracting them into a pulse of pure energy that conveys the meaning rather than simply expressing it.

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Alan Felsenthal Emerges from His Song Cave and Sings to Us

by John Yau March 19, 2017March 17, 2017

In all of his poems, you feel Felsenthal finding his way from word to word and from line to line: he is not trying to tell a story or replay an anecdote so much as go where the words and phrases, sounds and meanings, lead him.

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Finally Collage: The Hybrid Texts and Art of Robert Seydel

by Daniel Owen September 20, 2015September 21, 2015

“To wear masks put them off,” writes Ruth Greisman, alter-ego of the late artist and writer Robert Seydel. Though based on and named after Seydel’s real-life aunt, Ruth is largely a fictional construct.

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Ugly Duckling Presse Is Throwing a Rent Party

by Sponsor August 24, 2015February 20, 2019

On August 30, Brooklyn’s beloved, indie Ugly Duckling Presse is throwing a “Rent Party” — a half-day event consisting of a pre-party, barbecue, and performances by NYC-based DJs, bands, and sound artists.

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