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Readings by Christian Bök and Rachel Zolf reviewed

Recent dispatches from poetry bloggers about San Francisco's Small Press Traffic showcase of the Canadian avant-garde, featuring Christian Bök (Eunoia, Crystallography) and Rachel Zolf (Human Resources), marvel at the 'etymological efflorescence' and 'sheer performativity' of the reading.

Christian Bök's polarizing poetry

The Stentor (of Lake Forest College, Illinois) interviewed English and Music students after a performance by visiting artist Christian Bök of Eunoia and his sound poetry. It is interesting to see how Bök's work polarized the audience along certain lines, into certain aesthetic camps informed by contrasting values:

Winnipeg Free Press interviews Mike Hoolboom

Randall King from the Winnipeg Free Press interviews fringe filmmaker and author Mike Hoolboom in time for his two events at the Winnipeg Cinematheque.

How to approach movie art 'shunted to the fringes' of conventional cinema? Hoolboom offers a great analogy:

Margaret Christakos podcast on Writers in Electronic Residence

Writers in Electronic Residence has posted a podcast featuring Margaret Christakos's work from Excessive Love Prostheses and Sooner, right up to 'Used' in What Stirs. Of particular interest is Christakos's commentary on the workings of her poems.

Coach House Books on 'Being Erica'

Sure, product placement is gross and evil when Coca-cola does it, but isn't it kind of awesome to see your favourite Coach House Books on television?

Uptown Winnipeg on Mike Hoolboom and experimental film

Uptown's Aaron Graham discusses the range of films to be introduced by Mike Hoolboom at the Winnipeg Cinematheque for the launch of Practical Dreamers (a collection of interviews) on February 20, and in his presentation of the Cinema Lounge the following night.

My Winnipeg nominated for a Genie!

The nominees for the 29th Genie Awards, Canada's highest honour for film, have been announced, and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg has been nominated for 'Best Documentary.'

Maddin's film shares the Genie spotlight with other Canadian films like Up the Yangtze, a movie about young people ... um ... fornicating ... and Passchendale (starring the mountie from Due South).

HTO post on Torontoist.com

Read the Torontoist's blog entry discussing HTO and Toronto water, accompanied by a stunning photograph, at http://torontoist.com/2009/02/its_a_waterful_life.php.

Trailer for Sina Queyras's Expressway on YouTube!

Folks everywhere are gearing up for the publication of Sina Queyras's Expressway, which hits the road at AWP Chicago this month before cruising to Calgary for two events with Lisa Robertson, who unleashes Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip.

Open Book catches Kyle Buckley and Jessica Westhead at the Pivot

For those who missed Kyle Buckley (The Laundromat Essay) and Jessica Westhead (Pulpy and Midge) at the Pivot Reading Series on January 14, Open Book's Monique Mathew gives an account of what you missed, including the potent mixture of laughter and pathos imparted by Westhead's story of Taco Night in the suburbs. Buckley's poetry of laundromats, meanwhile, once again cleansed the clothes of perception.