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Maps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always...

I’m writing from Berkeley, California, a city deeply imprinted by histories of experiment: in literature as in politics, the personal, the social.

If the first months of 2020 have made anything clear to me, it’s that any imaginable future requires reaching some kind of answer.

Having engaged in small press practices of various kinds for more than half a life, I am beginning an attempt to make sense of what I've seen along the way.

Karla Kelsey reviews Lyn Hejinian's Tribunal, published this April by Omnidawn, for Hyperallergic.

On my commute to work, I see the billboard that makes me shudder.

BK Fischer reviews Lyn Hejinian's under-discussed The Unfollowing (Omnidawn, 2016) for Jacket2. Fischer begins by considering the non sequitur as a poetic device. "A skeptic might call it 'disjunctivitis': how much resistance can...

Poet-fans of experimental film have probably read Nathaniel Dorsky's Devotional Cinema, published by Lyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press in 2005 (now in its revised third edition). In the current issue of the Brooklyn Rail,...

I can’t be the only one who’s looked at Duchamp’s “Fountain” and thought what beautiful things toilets are. The sinuous, vaguely anthropomorphic shape; the porcelain’s serene shine; the holes in...