To encounter the history of avant-garde poetry is to encounter a racist tradition.
The canonization of the Moscow poet Kirill Medvedev (born 1975) seems to be taking place in real time.
"Theatre of the Future": The Question of Art Movements
In her recent post on Italian futurism, Marjorie Perloff invites us to interrogate how we define the bounds of artistic movements.
Futurism in San Francisco
On the weekend of October 15, SFMOMA sponsored a Futurist conference-festival that raised some fascinating issues for me. My own talk--the keynote the first night--was on Marinetti's 1909 Manifesto and its offshoots, culminating in a look at Gertrude Stein's portrait "Marry Nettie" as a tongue-in-cheek critique of the great Futurist Impresario.