UB Poetics

The Poetics List (1993-2014): founded by Charles Bernstein, Poetics Program, SUNY-Buffalo
POETICS@, edited by Joel Kuszai, introduction by Charles Bernstein: compilation from the early list:
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The Brian Kim Stefans Editions of the Poetics List

Edited by Kristen M. Fabians
December 1993 – January 2014
242 monthly introductions
approx. 1,523,284 words

Arras edition

1. Complete Archive

The Poetics List: The Complete Archive, 1993–2014
This file is ½ GB, almost 150,000 pages: opens best in a browser. It is likely to crash a desktop or web Acrobat or other desktop PDF reader.

Smaller units (100 mb for 1 and 3, 200 for 2)
Poetics List 1 (1993-1999)
Poetics List 2 (2000-2006)
Poetics List 3 (2007-2014)

2. “Currents”: Editorial Introductions

Currents of the Poetics List – Intro (Brian Kim Stefans & Kristen M. Fabians, eds.)

The Editor’s Introductions: The UB Poetics Discussion Group, Collected, 1993–2014 (Kristen M. Fabians, ed.; Brian Kim Stefans series editor)

A Poetics of the Rebuilt Archive: A Statement on Research Methods
(local companion essay)

How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Bytes: an interview with the sorting program –– Brian Kim Stefans talks to sortpost.py

How I Made This Book: Composing The Man Who Sold the Listserv [on Bowie] with Claude Opus 4.8

3. Reading Editions — Topics

“There Are the Alps, Fools!”: Pounding Fascism on the UB Poetics List, 1995–2008

Re: It’s 8:23 in New York: Poetry and the Wars After 9/11 on the UB Poetics List, 2001-2011

Encomia: Praise for the Dead on the UB Poetics List, 1994–2014

The Insincerity of Poetic Candor: Kent Johnson, Araki Yasusada, and the Authorship Question
on the UB Poetics List, 1995–2012

The Only New Device: Appropriation, Procedure, and the New on the UB Poetics List, 1994–2013

Neglectorino!: The Half-Life of a Reputation –– Neglect, the Canon and the Out-of-Print on the UB Poetics List
(and Elsewhere)

Poetics@ Reading Edition

4. Reading Editions — Individual Authors

Jack and I Were Both Fluent in Martian: The UB Poetics List Writings of Kevin Killian, 1995-2014

Publics Under Construction: The Poetics-List Writings of Charles Bernstein, 1994–2014

I Don’t Have Time to Write Today: The Poetics-List Writings of Brian Kim Stefans, 1999–2010

Poetry Is for Everyone: The Poetics-List Writings of Chris Stroffolino, 1994–2013

Saint Elizabeth Street: The UB Poetics List Writings of Jennifer Bartlett, 2005–2014

Poetry Is for Everyone: The Poetics-List Writings of Chris Stroffolino, 1994-2013

Poetics, Time, Body Disruption and Marginally Queer Solutions: kari edwards on the UB Poetics List 1996–2006

The Man Who Sold the Listserv: Every Sighting of David Bowie on the UB Poetics List, 1996–2013
5. Alan Sondheim

I. Denatured Wryting: the Internet Text · Theory and Arguments (1994–2014)
II. Sending Out Again: the Internet Text · 1994–2001
III. Psalm of Future Disappearance: the Internet Text · 2002–20
IV. On Code and Codework: the Internet Text · 2004–2005
V. Connection Went Away: the Internet Text · 2006–2014

ARCHIVAL LINKS
General Information
Poetics List Archive at UB's listserv site : this has been removed by UB; index at archive.org but not posts Poetics Early Archive Dec. 1993 to August 1996 (.eml files by month)
Poetics List .txt file archive (Dec. 1993 to Jan. 2014 [final month])
Poetics List 2.0 at the Chicago School of Poetics, begun in Feb. 2014.