CultSoc

Douglas Piccinnini reviewed at the L.A. Review of Books!

Peter O’Leary’s The Sampo made Robert Adamson’s reading list at the Poetry foundation: https://t.co/NQ05ZGPmzA

Our newest book made the "SPD Recommends" list!

Much thanks to everyone who bought our fundraising tee!

Letterpress-printed invitation to the Cultural Society 10th Anniversary events, NYC, 2011.

Contributed by Kimberley Yurkiewicz: "Amanda Nadelberg, ‘Dymphna,' Isa the Truck Named Isadore (2006). i wanted to highlight a poet who’s part of our cultsoc history, though we never published her books. how lovely to catch people on their way up! amanda has since created bigger works, finer poems, but these remain delightful surprises – each its own tiny present. back then they felt private, outside a shared time or space, but now return me TO a specific place. one where we sold books out of the side of our stationery shop, and young women wrote charming and clever poems for days. all secrets and adventures and quiet sweetness."

Michael Autrey | Our Fear, 2013. Autrey's poetry is uniquely austere, intense, skillful, and considerate.

Contributed by Mark Scroggins: “J. H. Prynne. Wound Response, 1974, p19. There's nothing I don't love about this poem, which for me represents one perfect limit of the short lyric—its delicate and deliberate music of vowel and consonant sounds; the cunning movements of line-break and spacing; its mixture of naturalistic description, cosmological wonder, and folk-song narrative; its interweaving of diverse registers of diction, from the standard-issue English poetic to the weirdly archaic.” #napomo #cultsoc15 #markscroggins #jhprynne #poetspickpoems #poetry #books

Mark Scroggins | Torture Garden, 2011. Pastorelles inspired by John Zorn's Naked City, these poems develop a finely-tuned sense of assault and beauty.

From Devin Johnston: "Randolph Stow, 'Landfall' from A Counterfeit Silence (Angus & Robertson, 1969). I love the gesture of refusal, both wistful and absurd, a poem built on mystery and silence." #napomo #cultsoc15 #devinjohnston #randolphstow #poetspickpoems #poetry # books

Devin Johnston | Miniside No. 3, “Cat,” 2002.