Welcome to the WITZ Archives, featuring seven years of essays, reviews, rants and manifestos.

WITZ ceased publication in 2000 after seven years and 20 issues. Here, you will find back issues in PDF format (get Adobe Acrobat Reader here). Eventually, I plan to put them all online, but that will be a gradual process. Issues available online have an active link on this page. If there's no active link, then I haven't put the issue online yet.

Witz 7.2 — Spring 2000
Martin Nakell on Bartleby the writer, Dan Featherston on Charles Olson, Patrick Pritchett on Tom Mandel, Standard Schaefer on Jean Day, Brian Kim Stefans on Jeff Derksen.

Witz 7.1 — Spring 1999
oss Pequeno Glazier: “Grep: A Grammar,” Michael Basinski on Robert Grenier, Will Alexander on the possibilities of poetry workshops.

Witz 6.3 — Fall 1998
Mark Wallace on “The Pragmatic Spirit of Collaboration,” Henry Gould on the stanza, Brian Kim Stefans on Close Listening, Jefferson Hansen on Poems for the Millennium.

Witz 6.2 — Summer 1998
Peter Quartermain on Bruce Andrews’s Lip Service, Juliana Spahr on Nick Piombino’s Light Street, Standard Schaefer on eyetrouble by Martha Ronk, Brian Lucas on Desire and Its Double by Norma Cole.

Witz 6.1 — Spring 1998
Thomas Epstein on the poetry of Ivan Zhdanov, Glbert Alter-Gilbert on literary portraits in the movies, William Marsh reviews Heather Fuller’s perhaps this is a rescue fantasy, and Jacques Debrot reviews Credence by Dennis Phillips.

Witz 5.3 — Fall 1997
Henry Gould on “The Sense of Being Right,” Guy Bennett on Brazilian poetry, Mark DuCharme on Joe Ross, Carol Mirakove on Mark Wallace, Franklin Bruno at the College of Neglected Sciences, and Douglas Barbour at EyeRhymes.

Witz 5.2 — Summer 1997
Mikhail Epstein on the mystery of Araki Yasusada, William Marsh on “Memory, Hypertext and Poetry,” Chris Stroffolino on Joe Ross, Stephen Ellis replies to Jefferson Hansen.

Witz 5.1 — Spring 1997
Stephen Ratcliffe on Larry Eigner, William Marsh on hypertext, Susan M. Schultz and Dan Featherston on Bob Perelman, Kasey Cummings and Carl Peters on Rae Armantrout, Susan Smith Nash on Susan Gevirtz on Dorothy Richardson, Tod Thilleman on Kenneth Barnard.

Witz 4.3 — Fall 1996
Jefferson Hansen on Anarchism and Culture, Conference Reports from Loss Pequeño Glazier and Henry Gould, Reviews of Todd Baron (by Noah de Lissovoy), Rod Smith (by Daniel Barbiero), Don Wellman (by Cynthia Hogue) and Harry Polkinhorn (by Stephen Ellis).

Witz 4.2 — Summer 1996
Mark Wallace on Poetic Form; Loss Pequeño Glazier on Electonic Texts, Chris Stroffolino on NYU Poetry Talks, Crag Hill on bpNicol; Stephen Ellis on Tod Thilleman.

Witz 4.1 — Spring 1996
Stephen Ratcliffe on Robert Grenier, Carl Peters on bpNichol, Andrew Joron on Stephen-Paul Martin, D.A. Powell on David Bromige, Clint Burnham on Kevin Connelly, and Book Briefs by Susan Smith Nash

Witz 3.3— Fall 1995
Susan Smith Nash on Leslie Scalapino, Mark DuCharme on “Poem’s Tensity,” Stephen Ellis on Edward Foster and Susan Smith Nash, David Giannini on John Perlman.

Witz 3.2 — Spring 1995
Mark Wallace “On the Lyric As Experimental Possibility,” Karl Young on “Roman Reading,” Robert Grenier and Chris Stroffolino on Don Byrd, Daniel Barbiero on The Art of Practice, and Harry Polkinhorn on Left Hand Books.

Witz 3.1 — Fall/Winter 1994
Charles Bernstein on “Community and the Individual Talent,” Daniel Barbiero on subjectivity, Dan Featherston on political poetry, Chris Stroffolino on Cole Swensen, Clint Burnham on Pam Rehm.

Witz 2.3 — Summer 1994
“Dear M: Signed P” by Paul Naylor, Mark Wallace and Jefferson Hansen on “The Avant Garde As Open Possibility, Chris Funkhouser on Nathaniel Mackey, Carol Ciavonne on Leslie Scalapino, Susan Smith Nash on Joan Retallack.

Witz 2.2 — Spring 1994
David Bromige / Robert Grenier : A Conversation, Suan Smith Nash on Kathleen Fraser and Janet Grey.

Witz 2.1 — Fall 1993
“Explications” by Nick Piombino, Stephen-Paul Martin on “Narrative As Poetic Space.” Susan Smith Nash on Susan Gevirtz, Dan Featherston on Karen Kelley, Kevin Killian on Tim Dlugos.

Witz 1.3 — Spring 1993
Susan Smith Nash on John Perlman, Serge Gavronsky interviews Raquel Levy, Johanna Drucker on Chris Tish, Clint Burnham on Karen Mac Cormak, John Tritica on Sheila E. Murphy, Charles Plymell on Jim McCrary.

Witz 1.2 — Fall 1992
John High’s “Working Notes from Moscow,” Clint Burnham interviews Steve McCaffery, Raffael de Gruttola on Steve McCaffery,Karl Young on Anne Tardos, Susan Smith Nash on Barry Silesky, John Tritica on Stephen-Paul Martin, Thomas Taylor on Rochelle Owens, Alan Davis on Harryette Mullen.

Witz 1.1 — Summer 1992
Stephen Ratcliffe’s “Interoptions,” Nick Piombino on “Writing and Persevering,” Edward Foster on Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver, Michelle Murphy on John High, Stephen-Paul Martin on Jacques Servin, Keith Waldrop on Cole Swensen, Susan Smith Nash on Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Bruce Campbell on Walter Abish, and “Witz End” by David Bromige.