Publications – Brian Reed

Pitching Poetry

bmreed — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:09:17 +0000

A new essay of mine–“Setting a Poem: A. J. Carruthers’ ‘Music, After Michael Dransfield’”–has appeared in the June 2017 issue of the Chinese journal Waiguo Wenxue Yanjiu [Foreign Literature Studies]. It’s an attempt to think about the analogy between the poem on the page and a score for musical performance, by way of the work of AJ Carruthers, a first-rate contemporary Australian writer. I take a look at a section of his long poem Axis that experiments with a pitch-notation system invented by the linguist Yuen Ren Chao.

New essay on Indigenous poetics

bmreed — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:29:40 +0000

I have an essay–“Sherwin Bitsui’s Blank Dictionary: Navajo Poetics and Non-Indigenous Readers”–in a fantastic new book, The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, edited by Charles Altieri and Nicholas Nace, that’s just out from the University of Chicago Press. I’m honored to appear alongside the likes of Langdon Hammer, Lyn Hejinian, Ben Lerner, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff.

New Review Essay

bmreed — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:17:34 +0000

My review essay “Postdigital Global Literary History: On the Fourth Edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics” has just been published. You’ll find it in the May 2017 issue of the journal Boundary 2.

New Short Essay

bmreed — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 23:44:59 +0000

I have a short piece called “Stanisław Dróżdż: From Conceptual Poem to Concept-Shape” that’s now up over on Jacket2 as part of a feature on “Conceptual Writing (Plural and Global)” edited by Divya Victor.

VisPo Blooms

bmreed — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:36:08 +0000

I have a short piece–“On Mary Ellen Solt’s ‘Forsythia‘”–that has been posted as part of the online journal Coldfront‘s cool new series “Singular VisPo: First Encounters,” which retells different poets’ and critics’ first epiphanic experiences with “visual poetry,” however defined.

A New Review

bmreed — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:30:07 +0000

A new review of my book Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetry, by Nikki Skillman, is up over on the American Literary History web site.

I Edit, Too

bmreed — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:36:33 +0000

I’ve just joined the Editorial Board of the journal Contemporary Literature. That’s on top of two other recent appointments, to the Editorial Board of the Poetics Research Journal, run by John Tranter out of Sydney, and to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Poetry and Poetics, a PRC-based publication associated with the Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics.

Bluebirds Fly

bmreed — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:22:37 +0000

I have a new essay up over at the online journal Amodern. It’s a special issue on the “poetry reading” as an object of literary analysis, and my piece is titled “Somewhere Bluebirds Fly: Jackson Mac Low Directs a Poetry Reading.”

Is You or Aint You

bmreed — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:13:25 +0000

I have a short piece up over at Jacket2 titled “Is You or Ain’t You My Poetry?” which is part of their new feature “Quick Question.” Katie Price is asking why the word “poetry” is still being used nowadays to refer to texts, performances, and artifacts that don’t seem especially poetic; other respondents include Amy Catanzano and Bob Perelman.

Interviews Posted

bmreed — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:52:23 +0000

The web site Critical Margins: Perspectives on Book Culture, Technology, and Reading in the Digital Age has posted an interview with me about my book Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. The questions were tough ones: I ended up saying a lot more than I expected. Another interview, more of a questionnaire really, has also recently gone live over at The Volta, in issue 35 of Evening Will Come. I talk about book reviewing.