http://www.kenningeditions.com Publishers of contemporary poetry, poetics, & nonfiction writing Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:20:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kenning Editions is proud to announce the publication of a major new anthology, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil--THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1985. With new interest in poetry as a performative art, and with prewar experiments much in mind, the young poets of postwar America infused the stage ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=268 Lorenzo Thomas wrote his “Two One-Act Plays” in 1964, the same year that witnessed the explosive Cherry Lane Theater production of Baraka’s Dutchman. Baraka, then still known as LeRoi Jones, had been in a playwright’s workshop with Edward Albee, whose Zoo Story had been produced in America just four years ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=150 Dating from the late sixties, Hannah Weiner’s Code Poems are widely recognized as among the earliest attempts to explore poetry as code and code as poetry (an interest she shared with Jackson MacLow, though apparently neither was aware of the other’s experiments at the time). Weiner’s book uses the International ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=241 On June 3, 1956, Robert Duncan, nearly six weeks into his teaching stint at Black Mountain College during its final year of academic operation, wrote to Denise Levertov that in the month that had intervened between his previous letter to her “I have written or finishd writing ‘The Origins of ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=209 Diane di Prima founded New York Poets Theater in 1961 with James Waring, John Herbert McDowell, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), and Alan Marlowe (Fred Herko, another key figure, was not among the official “board” of the nonprofit corporation). Over the next several years, the theater staged a number of important ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=202 Once, to get back at a man she intensely disliked, V.R. “Bunny” Lang had thousands of pink labels made up that said “My name is Parker and I am a pig,” and plastered them all over the guy’s neighborhood–and everywhere else in the world he, his friends, and coworkers would ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=188 Kenning Editions proudly announces THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1985, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. With new interest in poetry as a performative art, and with prewar experiments much in mind, the young poets of postwar America infused the stage with the rhythms and shocks of their poetry. ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=177 Cha’s delicate, complexly structured and minimalist performances have been little studied in comparison to her other work. Even the brand new Exilee/Temps Morts, a “Selected Works,” edited and introduced by the curator Constance M. Lewallen, which is packed with unpublished work new to general audiences, manages to sidestep these texts. ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=164 [Anthologies without articulated editorial criteria don't deserve the name; as a genre, the anthology is a definitively self-aware one. A unique feature of The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985 is the self-awareness of editors Kevin Killian and David Brazil, who offer extensive notes on texts that, for one reason ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=152 It is a commonplace among scholars of the poets theater that, in the late 1970s, West Coast language poets entered poets theater first by getting their feet wet with Grand Piano productions of Louis Zukofsky’s A-24, in 1978 and O’Hara’s Try! Try!, in 1979. By that time Nick Robinson and ... http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=136