CONTENTS

Foreword Amy De’Ath

Contextual Essay: Coordinates, Conditions, Air Peter Jaeger

The Girls’ City Anne Boyer

The Principle of Song: Denise Riley’s Lyrics Andrea Brady

I Want What You Just Said Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm & Rita Wong

Militant Sincerity Jeff Derksen

She Had Her Own Reason for Participating Kaia Sand

On That Which Must Be Stopped Justin Katko

from NORTH NORD GIIWEDIN Liz Howard

An Ontology and Practice for Incomplete Futures Larissa Lai

“What’s Wrong With Being a Free-Ranging Person”: Identity/Violence and Annharte’s Syntax of Category and Exception Reg Johanson

Talking Disability Poetics Michael Davidson & Nicole Markotić

Interval, Diastem: Politics of Style in Peter Culley’s Parkway Lisa Robertson

Tracing the Lines Kirsten Emiko McAllister & Roy Miki

Points and Lines Caroline Bergvall

at the end of the line cris cheek

sweet nancy wilson saved frank ramsay. Fred Moten

the gramsci monument Fred Moten

The Event of the Poem: “the gramsci monument” José Esteban Muñoz

Glimpses of bpNichol: 12 Frames Steven Ross Smith

Treaty Six from Under Mill Creek Bridge Christine Stewart

Poetry or emptying Keston Sutherland

Reluctance Eileen Myles

Joining Spirits Hoa Nguyen & Dale Smith

The Political Pronoun Dionne Brand & Nicole Brossard

Transformance Nicole Brossard & Fred Wah

On What Needs Ceasing Doing Jow Lindsay

Tom Raworth: Practice and Intervention Keith Tuma

“Go in, boys. Go in and stay there.”: Feminist Poetry and Reading Dialectically Amy De’Ath

YIELD. WHO. WILL. Catherine Wagner

Recognizing Mad Affects Beyond Page and Screen Rachel Zolf

Dreaming, at Length, of the Rood Peter Manson

Crashing the Craft Zone Louis Cabri

Becoming Digital J. R. Carpenter, Lori Emerson, David Jhave Johnston, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, Brian Kim Stefans, Stephanie Strickland, & Darren Wershler

Theory in the Vernacular: Johanna Drucker Darren Wershler

Lyric Conceptualism: a Manifesto Sina Queyras

Immediacies of Writing, in brief Daphne Marlatt

Poetry and the Commencement of Culture Dale Smith

We Are An Other: Poetry, Commons, Subjectivity Sean Bonney & Stephen Collis

Knowledge as Practice Maria Damon

Poetry and Closeness Juliana Spahr & Amy De’Ath

Preternatural Conversations CAConrad

Afterword Fred Wah

Acknowledgements

Permissions

Biographies

Index