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Paolo Javier is the author of 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada), which received a Small Press Traffic Award. He lives in New York.

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her MFA at SF State University. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Rodrigo Toscano was a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is the author of To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya Books, 2004), Platform (Atelos, 2003), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002) and Partisans (O Books, 1999). Originally from California, Toscano has been living in NYC for the last seven years.

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Joyelle McSweeney offers a generous review of Paolo Javier’s two books in the latest issue of Rain Taxi. Some excerpts:

on the time at the end of this writing:

“The title of The Time at the End of this Writing is like a rhetorical burning fuse, signaling the poems urgency to get written and get read. In service of this urgency, Javier fills up rhetorical and lyric form with lashings of popping, aurally kinetic language. This makes for a various collection, by turns sentimental and syntactically experimental, gestural and thinky.”

on 60 lv bo(e)mbs:

“In his second book, all of Javiers literary and intellectual power sources, private and public languages, political stances and pop references are fused into one relentless, brilliant material which stretches unabated for 84 pages.”

It’s a great article—check out Rain Taxi.