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VLAK in NY

VLAK 2 launched in New York at the Zinc Bar, 20 November, featuring readings by Charles Bernstein, Damien Ober, Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin, Bruce Andrews, Francesco Levato, Amy King, MacGregor Card, Pierre Joris, Corrine Fitzpatrick, John Coletti, Vincent Katz, Holly Tavel, Brendan Lorber, Vincent Farnsworth, and Arlo Quint.

VLAK in LONDON

VLAK will be hosting a launch party on 10 November, 20:00 - 23:00, at CARNIVALE, 2 White Church Lane, London E1 7 QR. The event will include readings by Louis Armand, Sean Bonney, Andrea Brady, Vincent Dachy, Thor Garcia, Stephen Mooney, Andrew Nightingale, Holly Pester, Lawrence Upton, John Drever, Johan de Wit, and performance by THE MIND SHOP (with David Miller, John Gibbens and Armorel Weston). Everyone welcome!

VLAK at the London Small Publishers Fair

VLAK Magazine, in conjunction with Equus Press and Litteraria Pragensia Books, will be represented at this year's London Small Publishers Fair, Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November 2011, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. The SPF is international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers; together with a programme of readings and talks (including the launch of VLAK 2 and Louis Armand's novel Clair Obscur).

In Memoriam

VLAK mourns the death of ALI DAGHMAN, killed in Syria 15 August, 2011. His essay on power and resistance, published in VLAK 2, can be read here: http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/ali_daghman. Ali was an intellectually fearless and committed man, and it was our great honour to have known him. Our thoughts go out to his family and his fiancée. May he rest in peace.

VLAK at the Bauhaus

VLAK 2 EST ARRIVÉ

Copies of VLAK 2 can now be ordered direct from the publisher, Litteraria Pragensia. V2 features:

DAVID HAYMAN on Robert Motherwell

Poetry by VINCENT KATZ

Excerpts from PHILIPPE SOLLERS’ H

NIALL LUCY on Jacques Derrida

Poetry by ALICE NOTLEY

Excerpts from EMMANUELLE PIREYRE’s General Spectacular

JEROEN NIEUWLAND on Monika Cichon

Fiction by HOLLY TAVEL

JOHN KINSELLA & URS JAEGGI’s Tractortatus Illogico

LOUIS ARMAND on Pierre Joris

ADAM TRACHTMAN’s photoessay on Morocco

Excerpts from LEÏLA SEBBAR’s Mon cher fils

Excerpts from DORRA CHAMMAM Reefs & other consequences

Poetry by MONCEF GACHEM

JANE LEWTY on Mahmud Darwish

STEPHAN DELBOS on Ali Ahmed Said (Adonis)

ALI DAGHMAN on Power & Resistance

Poetry by MEHDI MAHFOUDH

DAWN FOWLER on David Greig

Performance text by KEN EDWARDS

Photoessay by VADIM ERENT

CARLA HARRYMAN’s Mirror Play / Spiegelspiel

Fiction by ANDRÉ JAHN

Fiction by TRAVIS JEPPESEN

Graffics by KAREL JERIE

STEVE McCAFFERY on James Joyce

Poetry by HANK LAZER

PHIL COATES on Ian Hays, Joyce & Duchamp

ANN HAMILTON on Montage or the Will to Power

MARJORIE PERLOFF on Gertrude Stein

DAVID VICHNAR on Michal Ajvaz

MICHAL AJVAZ Interviewed

Artwork by LUCIE SKŘIVÁNKOVÁ

Poetry by PAVEL NOVOTNÝ, ONDŘEJ BUDDEUS, JONÁŠ HÁJEK &

ADAM BORZIČ

Collages by MARK MELNICOVE

ADRIAN CLARKE on Karen Mac Cormack

Collages by J/J HASTAIN

ALI ALIZADEH on Avant-Gardism in the Antipodes

Poems/texts by ANIA WALWICZ, CLAIRE POTTER, FELICITY PLUNKETT, GIG RYAN, JELTJE, JUSTIN CLEMENS, MATT HETHERINGTON, MICHAEL FARRELL, NICOLE TOMLINSON, PiO, PAM BROWN, SEBASTIAN GURCIULLO, CHRIS EDWARDS, MATT HALL, DJ HUPPATZ

TEREZA STEJSKALOVÁ on Czech 1990s Photography

Poem by CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Performance text by STEVE BENSON

KATARZYNA BAZARNIK on Liberature

ZENON FAJFER on Liberature

Artwork by MICHAL ŠANDA

Poetry by ANDREW NIGHTINGALE

Collaboration by Amaranth Borsuk, KATE DURBIN, ZACH KLEYN

Poetry by REDELL OLSEN, JANE LEWTY, CLODY CLEVIDENCE, ELEZA JAEGER, MEGAN M. GARR, SARA NICHOLSON, AMY DE’ATH

LOUIS ARMAND on Vincent Farnsworth

Poetry by LARRY SAWYER, PETRA GANGLBAUER, AMY KING, BRENDAN LORBER, CHRIS MARTIN, CORRINE FITZPATRICK, JASON MORRIS, MACGREGOR CARD, NINA ZIVANCEVIC, NOAH ELI GORDON

Fiction by JOHAN DE WIT & DAMIEN OBER

Poetry by STEPHAN DELBOS, KAMIL BOUŠKA, CRALAN KELDER, ROBERT SHEPPARD, FRANCESCO LEVATO

Texts/photography by JOSHUA MENSCH & VINCENT DACHY