InterviewInterview: Amelia Bentley and Toby Altman

 Amelia Bentley and Toby Altman talk dissolving occupations, mysticism, Philadelphia, the slave/master//form/discipline debate, and, of course, poetry.

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inter[re]view with Magus Magnus and Chris Mason

Over the winter, Magus Magnus and Chris Mason shared reviews of one another's books, and dialogued about the nature and purpose of the experiments, both of which (Chris' Hum Who Hiccup and Magnus' The Re-echoes) appropriate the sound of life and the life of words themselves, and always in the rhythms of the self. But let them tell you the story...


Magnus Reviews Mason.

Mason Reviews Magnus.

The Dialogue.



If you would like to read Chris' Hum Who Hiccup (Narrow House), buy it here.
And to find a copy of Magus Magnus' The Re-echoes (Furniture Press Books), look here.

“Listen you cheap little liar”: An electronic conversation between Travis Macdonald & Andrew K. Peterson

The following email correspondence between poets Travis Macdonald and Andrew K. Peterson took place over an approximately 18-month period spanning from May 2010 to November 2011. In an attempt to co-review/interview one another on the content of their respective recent BlazeVox titles (N7ostradamus & The Museum of Thrown Objects) the discussion (d)evolves into an examination of game theory process vs. procedure, politics/poetics, attention vs. perception, the ethics of ketchup, aliens, auks, Ted Berrigan and Bill Buckner in their underpants and much more.

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inter[re]view: Emily Carr & David Wolach

This is the second installment of inter[re]views between authors at Furniture Press Books and Black Radish Books. In this turn, Emily Carr and David Wolach enter something that looks like the pages of Jaques Derrida's Cinders.

Emily Carr reviews David Wolach's Occultations, while David reviews Emily's Directions for Flying.

To read Emily & David's inter[re]view, click on the following link.

To purchase a copy of Emily Carr's book from Furniture Press Books, click here.

To Purchase a copy of David Wolach's book from Black Radish Books/SPD, click here.

inter[re]view : Chris McCreary & Marthe Reed

In this first installment of Dialogue's End, Furniture Press Books and Black Radish Books teamed up one writer from each press for a mutual book review, followed by a casual dialogue about process and poetics.

Chris McCreary reviews Marthe Reed's new book, Gaze, and Marthe in turn reviews Chris' Undone: a fakebook.

To read Chris & Marthe's inter[re]view, click on the following link.

To purchase a copy of Chris' book from Furniture Press Books, click here.

To Purchase a copy of Marthe Reed's from Black Radish Books/SPD, click here.