“Critique is an exploration of conditions of possibility for freedom in transformation.”

New year, new me, right? We could all use a bit of inspiration to go with major milestones in our lives. There’s no harm in being a bit opportunistic when you turn over a leaf though!

Fauntleroy’s time aboard the fish has come to an end, and he must part with Miguel. What lies in store for him as he enters the open sea once more?

I loved Kent's ability to use the poetic art form to criticize not poetry itself, but the popular trends that muddy and obscure poetry by forcing all of us to dig through the garbage to find actual substance.

“From One Hundred Poems from the Chinese” doesn’t aspire to the brevity and concision of classical Chinese poetry. They’re relatively long, jumping between themes and styles, and always very funny.

Not since Ed Dorn have we had such scathing satire on the state of the arts, and not since Alexander Pope, I don’t think, have we had someone willing to take on the establishment with such vigor — and in rhymed couplets, yet!

Johnson’s work is distinguishable for its international breadth and for its pugilism.

He listens to the life inside life for the life outside life.

He has a cause and he has devoted himself to it. I can’t say God bless him but I can say Poets bless him.

“It sucks being a famous poet. / All your time gets taken up on / the phone or in answering emails / from people looking for a blurb, / and stuff. It’s totally tiresome!”

Echoes from so many sources, augmenting frequencies, ostensibly bitching about insufficient personal rewards — but more fundamentally, questioning the Peter Principle that underlies curatorial commodification.

Caesura presents the following essays, poems, and appreciations of Kent Johnson, all attesting (singularly and jointly) to the formidable aesthetic force of production he embodies.

Staring down the barrels of two seperate guns, Octave faces his near certain death. Will he be able to make it out alive, or is this truly the end for our hero?

This week hasn’t been great. Some might even say it was the worst week ever. How bad is that, you ask? I’ll let Ruby tell you.

As Fauntleroy wakes up from what turns out to be a dream, he grapples with the blurring line between reality and illusion. In the belly of a fish inhabited by monks, however, epistemological issues might be the least of his worries!

After weeks of pursuit and capture, the pirates are negotiating Octave’s release to his patrons. Will their demands be reasonable, or is Octave really doomed this time?