<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>It's been awhile, but thought I'd chime in with an update from the LBO/avant-garde poetics connection.  For those who can't fathom why politically-radical art tends to be so aesthetically conservative:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Announcing the present, implying the future – KENNING – a newsletter of contemporary poetry, poetics, & nonfiction writing PRESENTS: hovercraft by K. Silem Mohammad – now in its third printing, this chapbook has received positive notice from both coasts and several significant points in between – "corroborative horrific porridge" / "see these moonstone glyphics as centric plots" / "wired to the lap of art" - $6.00 per. hovercraft was originally published as the 2000 Kenning summer chapbook issue, #8, this reprint being limited to 100 copies in the original format – with hand-printed sleeves etc. End of May, 2001, Kenning #10 – a newsletter issue of approx. 100 pages & featuring poetry by Amiri Baraka, Jen Hofer, Edwin Torres, Oskar Pastior (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop), Sawako Nakayasu, Stephen Ratcliffe, Jean Donnelly, poetics by Nick Piombino and Jefferson Hansen (on Mark Wallace), and a non-fiction shortie by Camille Roy – plus MUCH ELSE by MANY MORE. This summer’s chapbook issue: OFTEN, a play by Barbara Guest & Kevin Killian. And, still available: Kenning issues 7 & 9, together featuring new writing by authors such as Jackson Mac Low, Rodrigo Toscano, Liz Waldner, Jesse Seldess, Chris Chen, Laura Moriarty, Mary Burger, Susan Briante, Gherasim Luca (trans. Julian Semilian & Sanda Agalidi), Richard Kostelanetz, Juliana Spahr, Alan Gilbert on Keith Piper, etc etc. "Thought is that resource particular to our being human. Kenning is its insistent and thoroughly practical instance – in each and every issue." – Robert Creeley Back issues available at $6.00 / per. Annual subscription rate (3 issues beginning with the most recent) is $18.00. Please make your checks payable to the editor, Patrick F. Durgin, and send to Kenning, 24 Norwood Avenue #3, Buffalo, NY 14222-2104. More information on Kenning can be found at <A href="http://www.durationpress.com/kenning">www.durationpress.com/kenning</A></DIV> <DIV>K e n n i n g [a newsletter of contemporary poetry, poetics, and nonfiction writing] 24 Norwood Avenue #3, Buffalo, NY 14222-2104  USA <A href="http://www.durationpress.com/kenning">www.durationpress.com/kenning</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>