Tag Archives: Vanessa Place

Vanessa Place and the AWP

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

Contrary to the AWP’s statement regarding the removal of Vanessa Place from the AWP Los Angeles 2016 subcommittee, Place’s tweeting of Gone with the Wind is not “explained” in my pieces on Jacket2. (I cite but don’t discuss the twitter … Continue reading →

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Poetry Communities, or, Why Everybody’s a Genius

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“Poetry Communities,” a companion to the conference “Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent” held at the University of Pennsylvania last year, is now online as a feature on Jacket2, edited by Katie L. Price and Jonathan Fedors. The feature includes … Continue reading →

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Iteration and Jonathan Stalling’s Yíngēlìshī

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“Like Place’s iterations of Gone with the Wind, Jonathan Stalling’s Yíngēlìshī 吟歌丽诗 also takes as its impetus the copying of another text and also addresses racial stereotyping and the negative attitude toward accents and dialects of English that differ from … Continue reading →

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Vanessa Place’s “Miss Scarlett”

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Over on the Poetry Foundation, The Harriet Blog has a write up of my recent post on Vanessa Place’s “White Out” of Gone with the Wind. The Harriet Blog also notes Place’s current retyping of the novel on Twitter, and … Continue reading →

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On not repeating Gone with the Wind

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Brian Reed opened his excellent essay on “Postmillennial Poetry and Redirected Language” with a discussion of Vanessa Place’s “Miss Scarlett,” and Place is currently broadcasting Gone with the Wind tweet by tweet through her Twitter feed. But Place has also … Continue reading →

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Poetry and Piracy: Copyright and Poetic Licence

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Here is a video of a talk I gave recently on copying, copyright, and contemporary poetry with reference to Kim Dotcom, Socrates, Plato, print culture, Hegel, Mitt Romney, J.D. Salinger, Monty Python, Charles Dickens, Richard Prince, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Morris, … Continue reading →

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Vanessa Place’s Replacements

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I’ve added a new post to my Jacket2 “Iterations” commentary. This one is on Vanessa Place and her “Boycott Project,” which involves taking various feminist texts and replacing all female-gendered words with their male counterparts. I first came across the … Continue reading →

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Poetry and Revolution

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Many of the performances and papers from the Poetry and Revolution conference, held at Birkbeck in May, are now available for download here, both in audio and text versions. Participants included Allen Fisher, Mark Nowak, Zoë Skoulding, Joan Retallack, Maria … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Writing and the Russians

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Over on the Los Angeles Review of Books, Matvei Yankelevich has just published a very interesting response to Marjorie Perloff “Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric,” published in the Boston Review’s May/June 2012 issue. In his piece, Yankelevich  not … Continue reading →

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Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

The program for the conference “Poetry Communities & the Individual Talent” hosted by the Kelly Writers House and the University of Pennsylvania is now online here. It promises to be a great conference. Speakers include Maria Damon, Craig Dworkin, Brian … Continue reading →

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