Jen Hofer Wins 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Jen Hofer wins the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, chosen by Pierre...

On Both Sides and the Center by John Pluecker

When you first walk in, there’s a man, blindfolded and gagged with his hands and feet cuffed to parallel leather rods holding him...

What I’m Reading Now… by Marjorie Welish

So integrated are signs in our lexicon that Richard sees no reason why poetry cannot write across these—and so she does...

Vanessa Place, Round One Via Lemonhound

I first heard of Vanessa Place and Les Figues in a cab going from...

Q.E.D. Part 3 | Authentic Objects

| West Hollywood |
Judie Bamber, Dodie Bellamy, Terry Castle, Vanessa Place
June 13, 2012
MAK Center Schindler...

Featured Fig: Frances Richard

I am deeply satisfied by work that extends a long way into the playful joy of manipulating its media, that gets beguiled by spatial, sonic, etymological or chromatic (etc.) progressions...fig Frances Richard is the author of...

HTMLGIANT Week-Long Feature on I’ll Drown My Book

Enter the ghost of conceptual writing, a ghost that cues the gestural fusion of idea with language...

Urs Allemann Receives 2012 Heimrad Bäcker Prize

Allemann’s poetry is dialectical, and it allows us to be cognizant participants in...

4th Annual Garden Party: All Figs On Deck

| Los Angeles |
June 3, 2012
Les Figues...

Global Conceptualisms on Jacket2

This series is intended to make public conversations that have previously been private, if they have been at all...

Les Figues Press at LitFest Pasadena

| Pasadena |
Harold Abramowitz, Amina Cain, Allison Carter, Michael du Plessis, Christine Wertheim
May 12, 2012
Central...

2012 Les Figues NOS Book Contest

Sina Queyras to judge 2012 NOS contest...