Burt Kimmelman
On Other Poets
"When History Gets Personal: CormanBronkOlsonEtAl." Spoke 11 (Spring 2025): 61-71: Select Here
Round-Up of Recent Marsh Hawk Press Books (by: Mary Mackey, Brian Cochran, Liane Strauss, Tony Trigilio, and Susan Terris): Select Here
"Coming of Age in Memory" (Introduction to Escape from the Fat Farm by Sandy McIntosh), 2025: Select Here
"Everything's in flux: On Jeanne Heuving's 'Indigo Angel'." Jacket2 (30 August 2024), Select Here
"Maureen Owen's and Barbara Henning's Poets on the Road [originally titled "Two Poets Walk into a Bar]," Pedestal Magazine 93 (March 2024), Select Here
"The New American Poetry, Personism, and the Cold War [Review Essay on The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism by Stephan Delbos (2021)]," Journal of Modern Literature 47.1: 180-91 Select Here
"Empty Mirror" (review of Rearview Mirror by Charles Borkhuis, Restless Messengers (February 2023): Click Here or Here
"Susan Lewis' Sublimations," Rain Taxi 27.4 (Winter 2022): pp. 42-44; Click Here
"Eye Am a Camera: Murat Nemet-Nejat's Later Writings," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (Spring 2022): Click Here or Here
"Barbara Henning's Present Tense," Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2021): pp. 92-103, Marsh Hawk Press Review or Here or Here
"Robert Vas Dias' Words Explore the Fact of Things [Review of Poetics of a Still Life: A Collage by Robert Vas Dias]," Hyperallergic (6 October 2021); click here
"Digital Creation [Review of How the Universe Is Made by Stephanie Strickland]," American Book Review 42.5 (July/August 2021): 25-27; click here or here
Recent Books by Marsh Hawk Press Authors (see Table of Contents for link to review of each book): Jon Curley, Thomas Fink and Maya Mason, Edward Foster, Basil King, Daniel Morris, Gail Newman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Eileen R. Tabios, and Tony Trigilio. Marsh Hawk Review (Summer 2021), Marsh-Hawk-Review-Summer-2021-rev.pdf (marshhawkpress.org)
“Kent Johnson's Disguised Pronunciamento,” B O D Y (January 2021), https://bodyliterature.com/2021/01/29/kent-johnsons-disguised-pronunciamento-essay/
"The Dead and the Living: Hugh Seidman's Late Poetry," Jacket2 (31 January 2020), http://jacket2.org/article/dead-and-living
"The Blues, Tom Weatherly, and the American Canon,” Jacket2 (September 2019), http://jacket2.org/article/blues-tom-weatherly-and-american-canon
My Tutelage,” Marsh Hawk Press Chapter One (February 2019), https://marshhawkpress.org/burt-kimmelman-my-tutelage/
"'I Might Die of Love for You': Michael Lally's Poetry Is Experimental and Unabashedly Romantic," The Poetry Foundation (2 January 2019), https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/148631/i-might-die-of-love-for-you
"Preface [to collection of critical writings and new writings by Michael Heller],” Michael Heller: New Writing and Commentary, a special section of Jacket2, Co-curated and co-edited by Jon Curley and Burt Kimmelman, (August 2018), https://jacket2.org/feature/michael-heller-new-writing-and-commentary
“Painting, Poetry, Basil King,” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 46 (February 2018), https://www.talismanmag.net/kimmelman.html
“Introduction” to a collection of critical essays on the work of Basil King, eds. Burt Kimmelman and Martha King, Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 46 (February 2018), https://www.talismanmag.net/kimmelmanintroduction.html
"The End of Language & the Beginning of Conceptualism in the Nineties: Art, Poetry, & the Materiality of Writing," Dispatches from the Poetry Wars (January 2018), http://dispatchespoetrywars.com/commentary/2018/01/end-language-burt-kimmelman/
"My Own Private Black Mountain,” Appalachian Review 3-4 (2017): 280-87
"Who is There?: Revisiting Michael Brown’s Autopsy Report and Reassessing Conceptual Poetry Two Years after ‘Interrupt 3’,” Dispatches from the Poetry Wars (August 2017), http://dispatchespoetrywars.com/author/kimmelman/
“Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry & Translation," from a secret location (July 2017), http://fromasecretlocation.com/poetry-new-york-journal-poetry-translation/
“Introduction” to a collection of critical essays on the work of George Quasha, ed. Burt Kimmelman, Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 44 (January 2017), https://talisman45.weebly.com/kimmelmanintroduction.html
“George Quasha’s Linear Music,” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 44 (January 2017), https://talisman45.weebly.com/kimmelman.html“[Interview on Conceptual Poetry]" (part of a forum on conceptual poetry, especially regarding Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place), The Argotist Online (March 2016), http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Burt%20Kimmelman.htm
Review of Joyride by Thomas Fink, Jacket2 (July 2014), jacket2.org/reviews/let-em-eat-kitsch
"Our Anxiety in
Samuel Menashe, 1925-2011 (click here)
Review of
Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death by Sandy McIntosh,
Galatea Resurrects (30 November 2007),
http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/forty-nine-guaranteed-ways-to-escape.html
“The
Presence and Absence of the Text: Norman Finkeltstein’s Recent and Early
Poetry” [Review Essay Retrospective of Restless Messengers, Passing
Over, and Track by
http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/five-books-by-norman-finkelstein.html
Fall Book Launch Introduction of The Light Sang as It
Left Your Eyes by Eileen Tabios, Marsh Hawk Blog (24 September 2007),
http://mhpress.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html#8509809001109599065#8509809001109599065
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“George
Oppen’s ‘Psalm’: Manifest Things and a Poet’s Words,”
“George Oppen and Martin
Heidegger:
The Philosophy and Poetry of Gelassenheit, and the Language of
Faith,” Jacket 37 (Early 2009),
http://jacketmagazine.com/37/kimmelman-oppen-heidegger.shtml
“'Art
new, hurt old': “A”, Ulysses, and Modernist Intertextuality,"
FlashPoint 7 (Summer 2004), http://www.flashpointmag.com/kimmlzuk.htm
“From
“Quantum Syntax: John Taggart's Discrete Serialism,” FlashPoint 5 (Spring 2002), http://www.flashpointmag.com/kimelman.htm
"The William
Bronk – Charles Olson Correspondence," Minutes of the Charles Olson
Society 22 (special issue, January 1998), pp. 2-6; republished in Otoliths 17 (1 May
2010),
http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/04/poet-editors-2-burt-kimmelman-william.html
“‘Art
As a Way’: ‘Absence and Presence, Aesthetics and Friendship in the William
Bronk – Robert Meyer Correspondence,” in The Body of this Life: Reading
William Bronk, Ed. and Intr. David Clippinger,
Paul Blackburn's The Journals (at the Modern American Poetry website: scroll down), http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/blackburn/poetry.htm
Howard Moss, http://burtkimmelman.com/moss.htm
William Bronk, http://burtkimmelman.com/bronk.htm
Black Mountain Poetry, http://burtkimmelman.com/blackmountain.htm
“’That they are
there’: Aletheia, Thingliness, and the Question of Poetry in Heidegger
and Oppen,” invited presentation for the George Oppen Centennial Conference,
Poets House /