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Chicago Review Launch Party Photos



Photos from the April 6 launch party for the new Chicago Review British Poetry Issue. Keston Suther­land, Peter Manson, and Andrea Brady (all fea­tured, with Chris Goode, in the new issue) read at Elas­tic Arts Space.

The Spirit of Ol' Ez

Joshua Kotin’s letter to the New York Times Book Review. Kotin men­tions Flood Edi­tions, LVNG, Ugly Duck­ling Presse, Cir­cum­fer­ence, Atelos, and Ham­bone. For more poetry that doesn’t require the bene­fac­tions of Eli Lilly and S.I. New­house, check out Omnidawn, Sleep­ing­Fish, NO: A Jour­nal of the Arts, and our British friends Barque Press and Object Permanence.

Joshua Kotin and David Galenson at LA Times

It’s Never Too Late to Create

Chicago Review | Lisa Robertson

Chicago Review 51:4 & 52:1

This 272-page double issue includes:

LISA ROBERT­SON SPE­CIAL FEATURE

With two long poems, two essays, an inter­view by Kai Fierle-​Hedrick, a check­list, and crit­i­cal essays by Ben­jamin Fried­lan­der, Chris­tine Stew­art, Jen­nifer Scap­pet­tone, and Joshua Clover.

POEMS

Stephen Collis, Ros­marie Wal­drop, Rusty Mor­ri­son, Genya Tur­ovskaya, Karen Weiser, Jacque­line Waters, Cesar Vallejo, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gnoetry & Eric P. Elsh­tain, Peter Gizzi, Michael Kindel­lan, and John Matthias

FIC­TION

Pamela Lu

ESSAYS

Stephen Rode­fer, Calvin Bedi­ent, and Eliot Weinberger

REVIEWS
Tim­o­thy Yu on the Future of Asian Amer­i­can Poetry, Norman Finkel­stein on Donald Revell, Dustin Simp­son on For­rest Gander, Leila Wilson on Eleni Sike­lianos, Ihor Junyk on Hannah Krall, Martin Riker on Patrick Oured­nik, Paul Mer­chant on Alan Halsey, and V. Joshua Adams on Bin Ramke.

A NOTE on Gnoetry and the period style.

Order it here.

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