by Charles Alexander | Nov 23, 2021 | Chax History, Poetics
Chax was not a dream in a mind when I met, after a few years of reading their work, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn, at a conference in Iowa City on Charles Olson. I was at the time in grad school at the Univ of Wisconsin, in Madison, and I was TA-ing for... by Charles Alexander | Aug 9, 2020 | Chax History, Poetics
We have so MANY books in progress at Chax! New books which will be out in the next couple of months from Kyle Schlesinger and Andrew Levy. Not long after that from Adam Cornford. Soon, as well, a Selected Poems from Norman Fischer, also Selected Poems of Rachel Blau... by Charles Alexander | Jul 15, 2020 | Poetics
In part of every living thing is stuff that once was rock In blood the minerals of the rock (from “North Central” by Lorine Niedecker) For Steel Wagstaff’s “Dwelling with Place: Lorine Niedecker’s Ecopoetics,” see uwche’s Edge... by Charles Alexander | Jul 15, 2020 | Poetics
From Aristotle to Aime Cesaire, from Gertrude Stein to Leslie Scalapino, from Charles Olson to us, writers like to talk about writing, and we like to read and hear them talk about writing. They ask questions, like what are we doing here? why are we writing? who is it...