Jacket2
Encyclopedia
Jacket2 magazine is an online poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 and poetics
Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory...

 magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 that publishes articles, reviews, interviews, commentaries, podcasts, and reissued archival material. The magazine is the new, interactive incarnation of Jacket
Jacket (magazine)
Jacket is an on-line literary periodical edited by the Australian poet John Tranter. The first issue was in October 1997.Each new number of the magazine is posted at the Web site piece by piece until the new issue is full, when the next issue starts. Past issues remain posted as well...

 magazine, the poetry and poetics magazine created and run by poet John Tranter
John Tranter
John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...

 in 1997. Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House is a collaborative freespace dedicated to the literary arts that serves as a center for writers and writing of all kinds...

 faculty director Al Filreis
Al Filreis
Al Filreis is the Kelly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. With Charles Bernstein, he founded PennSound in 2003; PennSound is a large...

 is the publisher and Kelly Writers House director Jessica Lowenthal is the associate publisher. The magazine is edited by Julia Bloch and Michael S. Hennessey. New material is added daily.

From Jacket to Jacket2

In 2010, poet John Tranter
John Tranter
John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...

 and Professor Al Filreis
Al Filreis
Al Filreis is the Kelly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. With Charles Bernstein, he founded PennSound in 2003; PennSound is a large...

 released a joint statement in which they announced that Tranter, the founder of Jacket magazine, would be retiring from his "intense every-single-day involvement" with Jacket. As described in the statement, Jacket, an online poetry and poetics magazine which put out a total of 40 issues from 1997-2010, moved to the servers of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 and remerged as Jacket2. Jacket2, launched in 2011 and hosted by the Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House is a collaborative freespace dedicated to the literary arts that serves as a center for writers and writing of all kinds...

 and PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

, preserves the original Jacket content and additionally provides features such as extensive commentaries and podcasts that the original Jacket did not. Instead of releasing content as issues, the new magazine provides content when it is ready, and new material is added daily.

Content

Jacket2 publishes content about poetry and poetics in a variety of different forms, including articles, reviews, interviews, features, commentaries, podcasts, and reissues. All issues of Jacket are also available through the magazine's website.

Articles

Jacket2 publishes full length articles analyzing poets, poetry and poetics. Poets and critics such as Kaplan Harris, Thom Donovan
Thom Donovan
Thom Donovan is an American musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass and keyboards. He has released one solo album and is a member of the band Lapush...

, Steve Bradbury, Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet...

, Erica Kaufman and dozens more have contributed articles to the magazine since its 2011 launch. Articles examine subjects as diverse as the role of the internet in new Chinese poetry (Steve Bradbury’s “Have net, will travel, The new face of Chinese poetry"), the poet Hannah Weiner’s later work (Marta L. Werner’s “The landscape of Hannah Weiner’s late work, The Book of Revelations"), and freedom and the “absence of political agenda” in contemporary Brazilian poetry (Farnoosh Fathi’s “New Brazilian poets”). Articles also appear as part of larger features, such as “Poetry in 1960, a Symposium,” “Hannah Weiner’s ‘The Book of Revelations’”, “New Brazilian Poets,” “Pacific Poetries”, and “Discourses on Vocality,” where multiple writers focus on individual topics within the larger featured theme. Articles in Jacket2 differ from articles in print or other online poetry magazines in that they utilize material made available for free from archives such as PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

, a vast recorded poetry archive and close collaborator to Jacket2, the Electronic Poetry Center
Electronic Poetry Center
The Electronic Poetry Center, sponsored by various departments at SUNY Buffalo, is an online resource for digital poetry. It was founded in 1995 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein, making it one of the oldest resources for poetry on the World Wide Web...

 website and Jacket2s own archive of Jacket magazine issues.

Reviews

Jacket2’s reviews section publishes full-length critical reviews, commentaries and analyses of poetry collections, poems, poets, writing poetry and writing about poetry. The reviews themselves are not traditional critiques, but are rather further engagements with the work or event at hand, analyzing not only craftsmanship and form, but also issues of context, philosophy, representation, others’ commentaries, humor, and more. Subjects analyzed in the reviews section are diverse, encompassing Steven Toissant’s exploration of Catholicism and heresy in Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S...

’s Emergence, Nico Alvarado’s description and analysis of the “gustatory” quality of poems in Michael Gizzi
Michael Gizzi
Michael Gizzi was an American poet.-Life:Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi...

’s 2009 poetry collection, New Depths of Deadpan, Chris Funkhouser
Chris Funkhouser
Chris Funkhouser , also known by the pen name C.T. Funkhouser, is an Associate Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology...

’s preface and reflections on writing a book about electronic poetry and the Electronic Poetry Festival, and Candice Amich’s analysis of canonization and translation in The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, to name a few. Jacket2’s online platform allows reviews to link to the items under review when appropriate and furthermore to make use of and include items from PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

’s vast archive of recorded poetry and poetry related discussions and conversations. Jaime Roble’s review of Elizabeth Robinson
Elizabeth Robinson
Elizabeth Robinson is an American poet and professor, author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently The Orphan and Its Relations . Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Denver Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and New American Quarterly...

’s The Orphan & its Revelations, for example, includes a PennSound recording of Robinson reading from The Orphan & its Revelations on Leonard Schwartz’s Cross Cultural Poetics radio program. Similarly, Kristen Gallagher's analysis of Tan Lin's "Seven Controlled Variables" provides a link within the review to a recording of a conversation Lin had with Charles Bernstein on Bernstein's Close Listening program, available on PennSound. The intermixing of recordings, links, and visual content is indicative of Jacket2s interactive quality. All reviews are freely available in full on the Jacket2 website.

Interviews

Jacket2 publishes transcriptions of interviews and conversations with and between poets and poetry scholars. The transcriptions often include text, photos, recordings and/or illustrations of the poem, project or topic at hand, incorporated into the Jacket2 website in a way that pushes the reader of the transcript from a passive position of simply reading as if he/she were listening to the interview or conversation, to an active position in which the reader interacts and engages with the subject. One of the conversations included in the magazine, between Caroline Bergvall
Caroline Bergvall
Caroline Bergvall is a poet of French-Norwegian nationalities who has lived in England since 1989.Bergvall has developed audio texts and collaborative performances with sound artists in Europe and North America; her critical work is largely concerned with emerging forms of writing, plurilingual...

 and Susan Rudy, for example, focuses at one point on Bergvall’s “work with language graphically on the page and across pages, and also visually and spatially when on a site or on walls”. A photo of one of Bergvall’s written pieces, Alyson Sings, directly follows that moment in the conversation, working to not only give the reader an example of Bergvall’s work, but also to illustrate Bergvall’s “graphical” and “visual” work with language. Much of the accompanying material worked into transcriptions of interviews comes from archives such as PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

 and Jacket2’s archive of Jacket magazine issues. “Renunciation”, a conversation with Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner
Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...

 and Aaron Kunin transcribed in the magazine, links to similar conversations with Lerner and Kunin respectively in Jacket magazine issues 40 and 37. Some of the material published in the interviews section is archival, such as Al Filreis
Al Filreis
Al Filreis is the Kelly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. With Charles Bernstein, he founded PennSound in 2003; PennSound is a large...

’s 2000 conversation with Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

 about William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

 (a video and sound recording of which are both included), and the text of a rare interview with Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

 from 1979. Some of the participants or providers of archival interviews and conversations have since passed away.

Features

Features are a central aspect of Jacket2. Different writers from a range of academic and stylistic backgrounds and in different stages of their careers write individual pieces related to a single topic, such as “Poetry in 1960,” “New Brazilian Poets”, or “Pacific Poetries,” giving the topic not only depth and breadth, but also giving the reader a greater appreciation of the importance of the topic itself. Jacket2s internet publishing allows for the production and publication of Features, which also include audio and video recordings from the PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

 archive (as in the "Poetry in 1960: a Symposium" feature), original translations and original poems (as in the Pacific Poetries feature), and PDF downloads of transcriptions and photos (such as a PDF version of an image of an edition of Hannah Weiner
Hannah Weiner
Hannah Adelle Weiner was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.- Early life and writings :...

’s “The Book of Revelations” in a feature about Weiner’s work). The diverse backgrounds of the multiple authors of a single feature help to create not only a greater analysis of a chosen features topic, but furthermore create an unusual, cohesive form of scholarship in which alternative and classical forms of analysis and academic scholarship work in tandem. Features published by the magazine furthermore differ in form from each other. The “New Brazilian Poets” feature, for example, includes an analysis of contemporary Brazilian poetry by Farnoosh Fathi, as well as poems by poets discussed in the analysis, Angelica Freitas, Leonardo Gandolfi, and Ismar Tirelli Neto.  “Poetry in 1960: a Symposium,” instead combines analysis of different poems from the 60's by 20 different writers, and the “Hannah Weiner’s ‘The Book of Revelation’” feature combines analysis with multiple different transcripts and appendices to Weiner’s work. All features can be found on the Jacket2 page and include tables of contents.

Commentaries

Jacket2 Commentaries are brief reporting and analyses by recurring commentators on topics within poetry and poetics, ranging from reports from poetry scenes, such as Stephanie Young’s commentaries on events in the San Francisco Bay area poetry scene, conversations and interviews with writers such as Allison Cobb (by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand), and archival commentaries from Jacket magazine issues. Commentators serve as correspondents or documentarians of a chosen topic, issue, and or place, and their comments are meant to be archival and discursive. Archival documents and recordings are additionally represented within the commentaries section, including recordings and videos from the PennSound archive, such as a video of Joanna Drucker at the Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House is a collaborative freespace dedicated to the literary arts that serves as a center for writers and writing of all kinds...

, and commentaries from Jacket2’s Jacket magazine archive, such as a commentary by Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain on British & Irish poetry since 1970 that originally appeared in a 1998 Jacket magazine issue.

Podcasts

Jacket2 hosts both its own podcast series, Into the Field, produced and hosted by Steven McLaughlin, and those from the PoemTalk series, a collaboration of the Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House is a collaborative freespace dedicated to the literary arts that serves as a center for writers and writing of all kinds...

, PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

 and the Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture. It was formed from Poetry magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly....

. McLaughlin, the host and producer of Into the Field, spoke with poet Benjamin Friedlander in the poet's home for the inaugural Into the Field podcast. Friedlander read original poems and also discussed his experience living in San Francisco and Buffalo, respective hubs of experimental poetry in the 1980's and 1990s. McLaughlin has also discussed "geography and work" in the poetry of Sina Queryas, the work of Tao Lin
Tao Lin
Tao Lin is an American writer. He was born of Taiwanese parents and grew up on the East Coast of the USA.He is the author of two novels, Eeeee Eee Eeee and Richard Yates ; a novella, Shoplifting from American Apparel ; a short story collection, Bed ; and two poetry collections, you are a little...

 within Tao Lin's bedroom, as well as the complications of being a "professional poet" with poet Andrew Zawacki
Andrew Zawacki
Andrew Zawacki is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. His first book By Reason of Breakings won the 2001 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, chosen by Forrest Gander....

. Into the Field podcasts provide a mix of poetry reading and discussion. Episodes, photos and brief synopses of episodes are available on the Jacket2 website.

Reissues

Jacket2 hosts online reissues of poetry and poetics journals in either browsable or downloadable PDF form. As of May, 2011, Jacket2 provides an online archive of Alcheringa, an ethnopoetics journal published by Dennis Tedlock
Dennis Tedlock
Dennis Tedlock is the McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Tulane University...

 and Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known American poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance.-Early life and work:...

 through Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

 from 1970-1980. Alcheringa is a joint project of ethnopoetics.com, PennSound, and Jacket2. Through the online platform of Jacket2, the reissues section allows archival work to be viewed and used by a much larger audience than the original publishers could have imagined, and further presents the work in searchable form, taking the original printed material into an interactive form .

Collaboration

Jacket2 works closely with PennSound
PennSound
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The webiste offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for...

 and the Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House is a collaborative freespace dedicated to the literary arts that serves as a center for writers and writing of all kinds...

 and uses archival material from sources including the Electronic Poetry Center
Electronic Poetry Center
The Electronic Poetry Center, sponsored by various departments at SUNY Buffalo, is an online resource for digital poetry. It was founded in 1995 by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein, making it one of the oldest resources for poetry on the World Wide Web...

, Jacket magazine and ethnopoetics.com.

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  4. Kelly Writers House
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