The Plot to Destroy Poetry?

Reflections on Publishing and the Idea of "Literary Exceptionalism"

A late 1979 edition of United Artists, a journal edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh. Paper, ink, and staples.

“It does seem like a plot to keep people from reading poetry.”

— Bernadette Mayer in a 1979 interview w/Susan Howe

Modernists and Conglomerates

This essay is a companion to the poem excerpt I just posted. That poem is in dialogue with the wo…