Jennifer Moxley’s very cool “Fragments of a Broken Poetics,” an essay from the spring issue of Chicago Review, is up at Poetry Daily.

From this week’s New Yorker:

Last week, the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-​based orga­ni­za­tion of “underdevelopers,” announced that it had raised $12.5 mil­lion to buy Cahuenga Peak, a hun­dred and thirty-​eight acres of unspoiled ridge­line that extends to the left and above the Hol­ly­wood sign, to pre­vent the land’s owners from offer­ing it for sale for pos­si­ble devel­op­ment.  The cru­cial gift, pledged a few days before the dead­line, was a nine-​hundred thou­sand dollar check from Hugh Hefner.

And Dou­glas Unger remem­bers the Chicago Review of the early 1970s in An Unsen­ti­men­tal Edu­ca­tion: Writ­ers and Chicago, edited by Molly McQaude:

The Review goes through eras, and when the new group of edi­tors, headed by Alexan­der Besher and Curt Matthews—the people who later cre­ated Chicago Review Press—took over, the mag­a­zine was in one of its down peri­ods.  Its sub­scrip­tion list was a mess, and the mag­a­zine was close to totally broke, in danger of shut­ting down . . . Some­how, as I guess always has hap­pened, enough con­cerned U of C people stepped in and gave new energy to the mag­a­zine and kept it alive.  Then the Play­boy Foun­da­tion, located just down­town, gave us $16,000. It was quite an evening when the edi­tors of the Review were invited to the Play­boy Man­sion for the cer­e­mony, and we watched our check being served up on a tray by a Play­boy bunny. The staff—men and women—had the run of the club after the cer­e­mony, and couldn’t have had a better time.

CHICAGO REVIEW

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A BILIN­GUAL READING

with

CHRIS­T­IAN HAWKEY

ULJANA WOLF

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to celebrate

ISSUE 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN

on

THURS­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 28th @ 6PM

at the

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Fea­tur­ing:

POEMS by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, Hen­drik Jack­son, Uljana Wolf, Stef­fen Popp, Sabine Scho, and Ron Winkler

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TRANS­LA­TIONS by Chris­t­ian Hawkey, Nicholas Grindell, Nicholas Perrin, Cather­ine Hales, Susan Bernof­sky, J.D. Schnei­der and Andrea Scott

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an INTER­VIEW with Jorge Edwards

ESSAYS by Jef­frey Yang and J.H. Prynne

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