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Jeanne Heuving on Nate Mackey Destination Out

Jeanne Heuving on Nate Mackey Destination Out

Jeanne Heuving is the editor of a fascinating new book of scholarship on one of the most important poets of our time, Nate Mackey. The book is entitled Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays on His Work. Jeanne Heuving is co-editor of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and...
Read/Study Mackey’s Double Trio

Read/Study Mackey’s Double Trio

If not the culmination of a 40+ year serial poetry effort by perhaps the world’s leading living practitioner of that stance toward poem making, it is a huge new hunk. Matt Trease and I look forward to digging into Nathaniel Mackey’s Double Trio twice a...

Xi Chuan Notes on the Mosquito

After making a presentation in Xining, China in August, 2011, at the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival, a Chinese poet came up to me, told he he enjoyed my presentation and asked if I would like a copy of his new manuscript. I said, sure and was stunned...