With + Stand

January is the new October

2009-10-26T12:24:00.000-07:00

Due to avalanching pleas, W+S4: the Lisa Robertson issue has extended its deadline for submissions to mid-January.

Labor on, laborers—

With + Stand 4: the Lisa Robertson Issue

2009-08-03T11:15:00.001-07:00

Calling for work.

“As for us, we like a touch of kitsch in each room to juice up or pinken the clean lines of the possible. This is the décor that receives futurity as its own ludic production; this weather is the vestibule to something fountaining newly and crucially and yet indiscernibly beyond. Perhaps here we shall be other than the administrators of poverty.”
—The Office for Soft Architecture, from “Introduction to THE WEATHER”

“I SPEAK TO JUDGE CRIMES OF FILIATION
as hard sky spent cancelled horizon
my own mouth barking perhaps I am
unmentionable ticking against the
dark adjacency of prose lovely home
of gods and punctuation I say this
against the long and burning hills in the
slatey cold of debt”
—Lisa Robertson, Debbie: An Epic

With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue

“Perhaps here we shall be other than the administrators of poverty.”

With + Stand, out of a deep collective sense of appreciation for and camaraderie with the great poet of systems and subjectivity Lisa Robertson, seeks submissions for its fourth issue, which will be focused on her work. Creative responses to any of her books or poems are especially encouraged. Critical work which seeks to “pinken the clean lines of the possible” is likewise welcome.

We search for a conversation that says what it says against the “slatey cold of debt.” We search for the “indiscernibly beyond.”

Send Word .docs of 1-15 pages to withplusstand [at] gmail [dot] com
by Saturday October 17th, 2009
(the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake).

A reading and release party will take place in November, somewhere
in the SF Bay Area.

Fountaining newly,,,

W+S

Stealing Photos

2009-04-22T12:12:00.001-07:00

This, from Megan Kaminski's blog, because we are lazy with photography ourselves these days.

Announcing With + Stand 3: the red issue

2009-03-16T08:52:00.001-07:00

With + Stand had a fabulous showing at the Canessa Gallery on Saturday night. The red issue left the evening in droves. Now to mailboxes-- holler if you want your address included in the great shipping out of copies.

Spex:

26 poets
36 pages
Spraypaint
Ducttape
Staples

With:
Aaron Begg
Amy King
Anna Vitale
Andrew Zawacki
Ariel Goldberg
Brian Ang
Brooklyn Copeland
Dana Ward
David Buuck
Donato Mancini
Erica Lewis
Franklin Bruno
Jen Hofer
Joshua Ware
Kristin Palm
Kyle Schlesinger
Megan Kaminski
Michael Scharf
Nicholas Karavatos
Piotr Gwiazda
Rodrigo Toscano
Rupert Loydell
Sandra Simonds
Tim Kreiner
and featuring Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes as
The Office for Experimental Communism

bios below / pic coming soon...

With + Stand 3: some contributor bios

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Sandra Simonds is the author of several chapbooks as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

Joseph Harrington is the author of _Poetry and the Public_ (Wesleyan). His creative work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, First Intensity, Locuspoint, etc. Portions of his manuscript _Things Come On (an amneoir)_ are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, P-Queue, and Cricket Online Review. He teaches at the University of Kansas (Lawrence).

Dana Ward lives in Cincinnati where he edits Cy Press. Recent books include Goodnight Voice (House Press) & The Drought (Open 24hrs, forthcoming.) He can't wait for the spring.

Brian Ang is a DJ on the freeform radio station KDVS in Davis, CA, where he also lives.

Anna Vitale is from Detroit and lives in Ann Arbor. You can find more of her writing in Model Homes and Shifter. She edits the online audio journal textsound and has been a freeform DJ at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor for almost 10 years. She might be in a band called the Vomettes.

erica lewis's work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Ur Vox, With+Stand, Cricket Online Review, alice blue, Little Red Leaves, BOOG CITY, Shampoo, Word For/Word, Work, and Try, among others. Chapbooks include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (forthcoming from Queue Books). she is a fine arts publicist in San Francisco and curator of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.

David Buuck is the author of THE SHUNT, out this spring from Palm Press, and _Buried Treasure Island_ (BARGE/YBCA 2008). BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) will be presenting "17 Reasons Why" at Mission17 Gallery from April 24-May 30, as part of its Visual/Cultural Criticism Residency, along with new work at the "Leave the Capital" show at Root Division in June. He is contributing editor at *Artweek* & teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and Bard College. More info at davidbuuck.com/barge and http://buuckbarge.wordpress.com

Nicholas Karavatos’ first book No Asylum will be available this summer from Amendment Nine, a new publishing venture out of Humboldt County. His poems have recently appeared in Blackbox, Cherry Bleeds, Minotaur, Numinous, Portland Review, Red Fez, There, Thieves Jargon, and Todd Point Review. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

Brooklyn Copeland was born in Indianapolis in 1984. Her chapbooks are available or forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press, Ungovernable Press, Greying Ghost Press, Spooky Girlfriend Press, Further Adventures Press, Dancing Girl Press, and Wyrd Tree Press. She slowly (very slowly) edits Taiga Press, and blogs (with obnoxious frequency) at brooklyncopeland.blogspot.com.

Piotr Gwiazda is the author of Gagarin Street (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2005). His poems have appeared in many publications, including Barrow Street, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Arts, Hotel Amerika, Rattle, The Southern Review, Talisman, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel: Second Floor. He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He has many books of poetry and collaborative writing in print, the most recent being his solo collection An Experiment in Navigation [Shearsman 2008]. From 1982-2008 he ran Stride Books, an influential and wide-ranging small press. He lives in a creekside village with his partner, two daughters, a couple of canoes and a ridiculous amount of books and music.

Michael Scharf is the author of For Kid Rock / Total Freedom. His recent critical writing appears at sustainableaircraft.com.

Donato Mancini @ EPC.

Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, and forthcoming, Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox Books). For information on the reading series Amy co-curates, please visit The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/) or visit her at www.amyking.org.

Joshua Ware lives in Lincoln, NE. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, most recently in Caketrain, Dislocate, Laurel Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, New American Writing, Packingtown Review, and Phoebe. He is the co-author of I, NE: Iterations of the Junco (Small Fires Press, 2009) and the author of the forthcoming chapbooks Excavations (Further Adventures Press, 2009) and A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations, or RUBY Love Songs (Scantily Clad Press, 2009).

Rodrigo Toscano (Estados Unidos, Nueva York). Nacido de padres mexicanos, se crió hablando en ambas lenguas, el inglés (en publico) y el español (en casa). Actualmente escribe y publica en ambas. Su poesía ha sido relacionada con una tendencia experimental politizada. Entre sus libros se encuentran, Partisans (1999), The Disparities (2002), Platform (2003) y To Leveling Swerve (2004). En 2005 creó el Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT), del cual es el director artístico y escritor principal. Este año apareció su libro, Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books, 2008), una colección de “scores” de “performance”, teatro experimental, o lecturas de “poetry readings” sin barreras. La colección fue ganadora del National Poetry Series. Su obra ha sido traducida al italiano, alemán y francés.

Kyle Schlesinger is the author of Hello Helicopter (BlazeVox, 2007), The Pink (Kenning, 2008) and Look (No Press, 2008). His long poem “The Family” appeared in Damn the Caesars (2008) and his current manuscript is Like It Is.

andrew zawacki is the author of the poetry books Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia), and of six chapbooks: Arrow’s shadow (Equipage); Georgia (Katalanché), co-winner of the 1913 Prize; Roche limit (tir aux pigeons); Bartleby’s Waste-book (Particle Series); in motion from the Meridian, a collaboration with artist Jennifer Schuberth (Dusie Kollectiv); and Masquerade (Vagabond). His work has appeared in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point), The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner), and other anthologies. Coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse), he has published criticism in the TLS, Boston Review, Talisman, How2, New German Critique, Australian Book Review, Religion and Literature, and elsewhere in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s new and selected poems, Without Anesthesia, due from Persea. His translation, from the French, of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck. Zawacki has held further fellowships from the Salzburg Seminar (Austria), Hawthornden Castle (Scotland), the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Le Château de Lavigny (Switzerland), the Fulbright Foundation (Australia), the Rhodes Trust (England), the Millay Colony, the Saltonstall Foundation, and Bread Loaf. He teaches at the University of Georgia.

Franklin Bruno's writings appear. So do his recordings. The most recent, respectively, are: Policy Instrument (Lame House) and The Human Hearts' Civics (Tight Ship).

Kristin Palm is the author of The Straits, published last year by the serendipitously named Palm Press. Her writing has also appeared in various journals, including Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie and LVNG, the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), and numerous magazines and newspapers. She writes regularly for Metropolis magazine and its blog, POV (www.metropolismag.com/pov). Kristin lives in San Francisco.

Jasper Bernes is the author of Starsdown (ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni). He lives in Albany, CA.

Ariel Goldberg is interested in documenting the cycle of performances from text and text from performances. This is to think about information consumption / communication and the artist’s materials and spaces for speaking to such a theme. Her current project of reading procedures for newspapers investigates the work poetry can do to caption images within the news. Other fixations include the cell phone industry and letter writing. She lives in Oakland.

Megan Kaminski's first chapbook, Across soft ruins, was recently published by Scantily Clad Press. She also has poems currently appearing, or forthcoming, in 6x6, Coconut, dusie, Milk, and Third Coast. She recently moved to Lawrence, KS, where she teaches poetry at the University of Kansas.

With + Stand 3: the red issue

2009-02-02T11:03:00.001-08:00

"Critique does not simply liquidate the system." -Adorno, Negative Dialectics

With + Stand seeks submissions for its third iteration, the red issue. This issue will take shape over the next month and will be available at the With + Stand edition of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series in San Francisco on March 14th 2009. Please send submissions as a .doc to withplusstand [at] gmail [dot] com by February 28th.

Docs should consist of a single face of a single 8.5 x 11" page, formatted to your liking, and responding to the following:

Recent crises in global capitalism have functioned, as crises often do, to reveal the historical contours of the present, providing new opportunities to read history against the grain and to unsettle established assumptions. This call for [poems/essays/manifestos] proposes that as our economies enter a period of potentially profound structural transformation, it is all the more necessary to examine the relationship between the economic mode of production and cultural and social forms in the period after WWII.

Special thanks to Berkeley's Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group for lending their CFP.

A note on praxis; copies into the world

2008-10-07T08:14:00.000-07:00

"Artworks synthesize ununifiable, nonidentical elements that grind away at each other; they truly seek the identity of the identical and the nonidentical processually because even their unity is only an element and not the magical formula of the whole." -Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

Theorizing the system as a poetic is explicitly a practice of theorizing the collective. In producing a journal based on this understanding, the aim of W+S has been to negate the glossy individualism of poetry as such. For issue #2, former contributors were invited to also be editors, tagging poets whose work they admired; the connections spiraled out dialectically, creating a dynamic and living process, one that is unified to the precise degree it negates unity. The grinding is the core project.

Tonight, W+S#2 contributor Meg Hamill is part of the State of the Union reading at Pegasus in downtown Berkeley. The first copies of #2 will make their way into the world from there.

Onward,,,

Dan/W+S

Some (issue 2) contributor bios...

2008-09-30T10:52:00.000-07:00

Phoebe Wayne lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, cat, and dog. She studies library science at the University of Washington. Recent work appears in Vanitas.

Meg Hamill's second book Trillions & Trillions of Heartbeats is sitting in many heavy boxes in her living room. She currently lives in Santa Rosa California, where she works as a freelance writer/editor, and as a teacher with California Poets in the Schools. Read more and contact Meg at www.meghamill.com.

Vivek Narayanan is consulting editor for Almost Island and works at Sarai-CSDS in Delhi, but is currently spending the year on sabbatical in Chennai. He was born in India to Tamil-speaking parents, grew up in Lusaka, Zambia, and studied for degrees in the US.

Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London. His new collection of poems is Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions, 2008). "After K. Silem Mohammad" is part of a new project in which he is working with with his fellow poets' abandoned efforts.

Bill Freind is the author of American Field Couches (BlazeVox, 2008) and An Anthology (housepress, 2000). His poems have appeared in journals such as 88, Aught, Can we have our ball back, Combo, Jacket, and Spaltung. He lives near an abandoned golf course in South Jersey.

Jen Hofer’s recent publications include an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin, The Route (Atelos, 2008), a translation of books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008), lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007), and Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her forthcoming books are from the valley of death (Ponzipo), Laws (Dusie Books) and a book-length series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press). She has published poems and translations in numerous small-press publications, including 1913, Aufgabe, Black Clock, Bomb, DISASTER, The Brooklyn Rail, eough, Jacket, Mar con Soroche, Primary Writing and War and Peace. Jen lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, works as a Spanish-language interpreter with the Los Angeles County Superior Courts, and is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

Noah Eli Gordon’s writing in this issue is from Bohr’s Model, a book-length fiction/poetry hybrid work forthcoming from Quale Press. He currently teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.

Francisco Reinking resides in Oakland, California. Poems he wrote will appear in The American Poetry Review and Projector.

Kristen Orser lives in Chicago where she pretends she can paint and teaches at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of E AT I (Wyrd Tree Press, 2009) and Fall Awake (Taiga Press, 2008). Her work has appeared in FOURSQUARE, Ab Ovo, Indefinite Space, If Poetry Journal, Cannot Exist, and elsewhere.

erica lewis is a fine arts publicist in San Francisco and curator of The Canessa Gallery Reading Series in San Francisco. She received her MFA from Mills College and is the recipient of the 2008 Mary Merritt Henry Prize for poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Ur Vox, Cricket Online Review, alice blue, BOOG CITY, Work, Try, The Walrus, and Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. Chapbooks are forthcoming from Etherdome Press (excerpts from camera obscura) and Queue (the precipice of jupiter).

Mark Stephen Finein earned his BFA from Buffalo State in 1986, specializing in surrealistic wood block printmaking, lithography, and 3D constructions. After a short stint as a graphic artist, he began performing, writing, and recording music, playing in the streets of Prague and in rock, blues, and folk clubs in Buffalo, San Francisco, Germany, England, and Wales. Now that he’s shaken off the demon of representationalism, he’s proud to be showing his visual artwork publicly for the first time in two decades. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue and BOOG CITY; chapbooks are forthcoming from Etherdome and Queue.

Anne Boyer is the author of Art is War (2008), The Romance of Happy Workers (2008), Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology (2007), and Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse (2006). She lives in Kansas.

More soon...

With + Stand #2: the Black and White issue

2008-09-27T11:57:00.000-07:00

With + Stand is once again honored and excited to announce the publication of its second issue.

Hitting streets & mailboxes soon:

11 poets
54 pages
Spray paint
Duct tape
Staples

Phoebe Wayne
Meg Hamill w/ Ted Keller
Bill Freind
Noah Eli Gordon
Francisco Reinking
Barry Schwabsky
Jen Hofer
Anne Boyer
Vivek Narayanan
Kristen Orser
Erica Lewis w/ Mark Stephen Finein

As ever, W+S will be available only for free.

Stay tuned.

Soon & Soon

2008-09-18T11:35:00.000-07:00

The spraypainting is done. The notices are out. The copies are copying. Soon W+S2: The B&W Issue will hit mailboxes. Get ready---

Submissions...

2008-08-06T08:12:00.000-07:00

will be accepted through Friday 8/15/08.

As ever, please send 1-10 pages as a .doc to:

withplusstand@gmail.com

Details of what we're looking for are in an earlier post.

Hasta la victoria---

We on We

2008-06-20T09:06:00.000-07:00

We've been thinking a fair amount about the first person plural lately, having been asked several times who we are; having read and been entertained by Joshua Ferris' Then We Came To The End, though entertained in the way that much of ghetto pop life entertains, since the 'we' that talks in that book is decidedly anti-we, or it believes the constituent elements of that we are stronger and more magnificent than the collective which the pronoun proposes, which is what we mean when we call something anti-we.

We ourselves do not make a habit of blogging though, and had no intention of talking about our thinking about we, or the relative we-ness or various we's.

But then we wandered over (as we are wont to do) to Jasper Bernes's Little Red's Recovery Room, and the discussion therein of questions of internet/violence/revolution/distribution, with alas much finger-pointing and name-calling. We felt this discussion touched on our thinking about we, and felt inspired to wonder why the various folks involved (JB & JC on one side; SA and 'friends' on the other) didn't, you know, go there. Seems to us that the fundamental difference between changing how products are distributed (the SA position) v. how products are produced (the JB) is that the first imagines that the relations between individuals remain the same (this being what we like to call the Spine of How Stuff Works, or the Architecture of We): SA wants to change how we move stuff around by changing how we relate to stuff, a position which doesn't worry itself overly much that we still you know, relate to each other via stuff. Changing production, as we understand JB's take on it, would allow for a change in those relations-- the ones between people-- meaning that we would by necessity take different forms than we currently take. We're theorizing the collective here people. That, internet or no, violence or no, is what it's all about.

W+S the B+W issue

2008-06-18T14:44:00.000-07:00

"...truth has its own laws, which are contrary to those of society; and in real history it is not only repression that grows but also the potential for freedom, which is unanimous with the truth content of art." --Theodor Adorno, "Toward a Theory of the Artwork"

With + Stand invites submissions of emergent poetry & prose which (quoting ourselves) "gestures/thinks in around with through against histories (of capital & labor flows global markets trade agreements arts forms bodies states cities societies resistances migrations movements ideologies ideas etc.) & systems" for our second instantiation, the Black & White issue. As we distrust themes, we are taking instead as our organizing principle the black and white of text-on-paper. (Or of other things.) (Given this organizing principle, however, we're inspired to include a note on dialectics and dualism: "Hegel helped Kant's critical philosophy come into its own by criticizing the Kantian dualism of form and content, by drawing the rigid determinations of difference of Kant... into a dynamic without sacrificing the indissolubility of the moments to a flat, unmediated identity." --Adorno, "Aspects of Hegel's Philosophy.") Please send 1-10 pages which address the above as a .doc to withplusstand@gmail.com by August 1st, 2008. To be spraypainted, duct-taped, and distributed as widely as funds allow in the autumn of 2008.

To those friends who submitted something for issue two these past months: please resend.

(A couple copies of issue #1 are scattered about the W+S mansion; if you haven't had yr DIY poetry fix, drop us a line with a good story & yr address.)

Placeless in the Other

2008-05-22T12:19:00.000-07:00

We're Recently Received by Silliman:

Withstand, no. 1, Winter 2008, no location given. Includes Michael Scharf, Dan Thomas-Glass, Juliana Spahr, Derek Henderson, Megan Kaminski, Joshua Clover, Ben Lerner, Ange Mlinko, Christopher Nealon, Rodrigo Toscano, Timothy Kreiner (unbound pages held together by bilingual loops of “danger/peligro” tape fastened with duct tape, order determined by assigning stock symbols to contributors names by initials & tracking for a period – Scharf must have been Microsoft).

You'll find us under "Other":

http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/

W+S moves, dust settles

2008-04-21T16:55:00.001-07:00

We're relocated from stuffy Kensington (can't you hear the stuffiness!?) to freeway-easy Albany. The boxes are mostly where they are now. We've found a few stray copies of #1. Hit us up if you're jonesing.

withplusstand@gmail.com

Conversation in the Chemical Night

2008-02-28T11:59:00.000-08:00

John Latta lends us his ear on his blog, liking the danger tape, some mid-ground reads, worried (we too) over irony, static, debris, noise. All that plus the cover's own fashion shoot.

I'm just grinding cousin:

http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/

Some contributor bios

2008-02-19T07:25:00.000-08:00

Absent today: Juliana Spahr, Chris Nealon

Michael Scharf is the author of Telemachiad, Vérité, and For Kid Rock / Total Freedom.

Dan Thomas-Glass is writing a dissertation on language poetry and rap music as read through the various lenses of globalization, 1970s urban policy, and the crushed collectives of the 1960s. Poems have appeared in Caffeine Destiny, Digital Artifact, Shampoo, Kitchen Sink and others; reviews in Jacket and Dusted Magazine.

Derek Henderson: “I live in Salt Lake City with my wife and kids, where I write and teach at the University of Utah. We’ve just bought a house here, which is fine by me; it’s good to have mountains for neighbors. If you’re at all interested, my poems can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Fence, Colorado Review, GoodFoot, GutCult, Word for/Word, Caketrain and DIAGRAM, among others. At the moment, I am particularly taken with Thoreau’s observation that ‘Night is spangled with fresh stars.’”

Megan Kaminski recently moved to Lawrence, KS, where she teaches poetry as a lecturer at the University of Kansas. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, FOURSQUARE, Phoebe, Womb, and Can We Have Our Ball Back?.

Joshua Clover is a former music critic, legal editor, and bookstore clerk. His most recent book, The Totality for Kids, was published in 2006 by University of California, which will also publish his forthcoming cultural history, 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (2009).

Ben Lerner is from Topeka, Kansas. His books are The Lichtenberg Figures and Angle of Yaw, both published by Copper Canyon Press. He co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the arts.

Ange Mlinko is the author of _Starred Wire_ (Coffee House Press) and _Matinees_ (Zoland). She lives in a secret suburb of New York City where she raises a toddler and a preschooler, and talks with her neighbors about the mimetic structure of violence, while reading through the Duncan-Levertov correspondence.

Rodrigo Toscano latest book Collapsible Poetics Theater, was a National Poetry Series 2007 winner. It will be published in 2008 by Fence Books. Toscano is the artistic director and writer for the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT). His polyvocalic pieces, poetics plays, and body-movement poems, have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival, Poet's Theater Jamboree 2007, and the Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival. Toscano is originally from the Borderlands of California. He works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute, and lives in the Greenpoint township of Brooklyn.

Tim Kreiner is a sometime editor, occasional tutor and reluctant clerk of modernity passing the buck in seminar rooms. In between things, he is the author of some poems.

All Up in Your Area

2008-02-08T08:39:00.000-08:00

With + Stand is pleased honored & excited to announce the publication of its inaugural issue, featuring new work by:

Michael Scharf
Dan Thomas-Glass
Juliana Spahr
Derek Henderson
Megan Kaminski
Joshua Clover
Ben Lerner
Ange Mlinko
Christopher Nealon
Rodrigo Toscano
& Tim Kreiner

51 pages. Limited numbered edition of 100 copies spray-painted by hand.

Available the Ides of February,

Only for free, via post or from the hands of an author.

For press copies, trades or inquiries, email us:

withplusstand@gmail.com

Unalienated covers

2007-11-13T08:45:00.000-08:00

With + Stand has begun recruiting for the production of its covers, to be hand-spraypainted in the first month of 2008. Already several graduate students, a bunch of poets, one attorney, two non-profit directors, a few teachers, one musician, and a handful of artists have volunteered their labor. Do you want to be part of (history, publishing, the arts, poetry, the world)?

Email us: withplusstand@gmail.com

With + Stand

2007-10-04T16:12:00.000-07:00

A new journal of letters. Seeks submissions of emergent poetry & prose which gestures/thinks in around with through against histories (of capital & labor flows global markets trade agreements arts forms bodies states cities societies resistances migrations movements ideologies ideas etc.) & systems.

First issue will be handsomely reproduced & distributed as widely as funds allow in the first month of 2008.

Reading period: now through December 31st, 2007.

Send submissions of 1-10 pages as word .doc attachments to withplusstand@gmail.com

"The art that moves ahead into the unknown, the only art now possible, is neither lighthearted nor serious; the third possibility, however, is cloaked in obscurity, as though embedded in a void the figures of which are traced by advanced works of art." – Theodor Adorno, 'Is Art Lighthearted?'