White Pop

Jared White has an essay on music here & poems here & here.

Nut News & Two Interviews

You may have read her chapbook, Perfect Villagers, from Octopus Books (which is the last section of this book), but this is Sueyeun Juliette Lee's first full-length book & it's pretty damn good. I might have a review of this book forthcoming so for now all I'll say is that I picked as one of the best books for 2008 over on the No Tells blog & you can buy it here. Also the poet (my friend) Meghan Punschke designed the cover.

Speaking of Coconut, issue 14 is up & it contains some poets I can't wait to read such as Eileen Tabios, Graeme Bezanson (who I went to NS with, as well as, worked on LIT with ((he's still the poetry editor there)) and he's part of the Coldfront Crew, yet I haven't really read his poems), Susana Gardner (who edits Dusie press), and Rauan Klassnik.
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Two more interviews with the esteemed artist, Joseph Lappie:

http://chicagoist.com/2008/11/22/an_interview_with_joseph_lappie.php

http://theloop.colum.edu/s/644/index.aspx?sid=644&gid=24&pgid=252&cid=4885&ecid=4885&ciid=16917&crid=0