Conceptual writing

Also conceptual poetry, literary appropriation, ready-made poetry, uncreative writing.

Pages

• Caroline Bergvall
• Derek Beaulieu
• Craig Dworkin
• Kenneth Goldsmith
• Simon Morris
• Vanessa Place
• UbuWeb

Anthologies

• Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, eds. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2011.
• I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2012.

Literature

• OEI journal, Stockholm, since 1999. [Issues such as OEI #1 - Oidentifierade verbala objekt, OEI #7-8 - EFTER LANGUAGE [samtida innovativ amerikansk poesi] or OEI #15-17 - Appropriering.] (Swedish)
• Marjorie Perloff, Conceptualisms, Old and New, Parkett, 2007. [1]
• Kenneth Goldsmith, Conceptual Poetics: Christian Bök, Harriet, June 2008.
• Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place, Notes on Conceptualisms, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009, 80 pp.
• Kenneth Goldsmith, Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo, in Poetry magazine, July/August 2009.
• derek beaulieu, How to Write, Vancouver: talonbooks, 2010, 72 pp.
• Vanessa Place, Notes on Why Conceptualism is better than Flarf, Calgary: No Press, 2010.
• Nicolas Tardy, Les ready-mades textuels, HEAD (Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design de Genève), 2010, 72 pp. (French)
• Crux Desperationis journal, ed. Riccardo Boglione, since 2011. [2]
• Kenneth Goldsmith, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, Log, EPUB, HTML.
• Sam Rowe, Uncreative Writing, Creative Reading, Full Stop, Aaugust 2011.
• Marjorie Perloff, unoriginal genius: poetry by other means in the new century, University of Chicago Press, 2012, 232 pp.
• Kenneth Goldsmith et alii, Conceptual Writing: A Worldview, Harriet, April 2012.
• 'Notes on Conceptualisms': A dialogue between Vanessa Place and Tania Ørum, Jacket2, June 2012.
• Jacob Edmond, Conceptual Writing and the Russians, A Common Strangeness, July 2012.
• Vanessa Place, Conceptualist ostranenie: A dialogue between Derek Beaulieu (Canada) and Natalia Fedorova (Russia), Jacket2, August 2012.
• Vanessa Place, Fotnot: Nota al Pie on Conceptualisms: An epistolary dialogue between Anna Hallberg (Sweden) and Carlos Soto-Román (Chile), Jacket2, September 2012.
• Peli Grietzer, The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2012.
• Steven Zultanski, Short statement in five parts on 'Statement of Facts', Jacket2, October 2012.
• Vanessa Place, Not the patriarchal voice of the poet alone: A dialogue between Paal Bjelke Andersen (Norway), Marco Antonio Huerta (Mexico), and Robert Fitterman (United States), Jacket2, November 2012.
• Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism, Triple Canopy, 2013, 268 pp. [3]
• Darren Wershler, Conceptual Writing As Fanfic, in Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World, ed. Anne Jamison, Dallas: Smart Pop, 2013.
• Vanessa Place, Conceptualist Autopoiesis: A dialogue between Divya Victor (United States/India/Singapore), Swantje Lichtenstein (Germany), and Riccardo Boglione (Italy/Uruguay), Jacket2, April 2013.
• Calvin Bedient, Against Conceptualism, Boston Review, July 2013.
• Amy King, Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, The Rumpus, July 2013.
• Robert Archambeau, Charmless and Interesting: What Conceptual Poetry Lacks and What It’s Got, Harriet, August 2013.
• Kenneth Goldsmith, The Writer as Meme Machine, The New Yorker, October 2013.
• Carlos Almonte y Alan Meller, Neoconceptualismo. Ensayos, Delhi: Sarak Editions, 2014. (Spanish)
• Brian Kim Stefans, Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand, Los Angeles: Area Sneaks, 2014, 14 pp. [4]
• Richard Kostelanetz, What Was "Conceptual Writing"?, Utsanga, February 2014.
• Tan Lin, Troll Thread Interview, Harriet, May 2014.
• Hannes Bajohr, Let it write: Contemporary Literature and the Fear of the Digital, 0x0a, November 2014.
• Felix Bernstein, Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry, Los Angeles: Insert Blanc Press, 2015, 170 pp.
• Mirjam Horn, Postmodern Plagiarisms: Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriation in US-American Literature (1970–2010), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, 292 pp.
• Gaëlle Théval, Poésies ready-made, XXe-XXIe siècles, L'Harmattan, 2015, 288 pp. (French)
• Katie L. Price, What is the relationship between Conceptual art and conceptual writing?, Jacket2, January 2015.
• Karel Piorecký, Cautious Vitality: New Developments in Contemporary Czech Poetry, Full Stop, July 2015.
• Michael Leong, The Languages of Bernar Venet’s Conceptual Poetry, Hyperallergic, August 2015.
• Alec Wilkinson, Something Borrowed, The New Yorker, October 2015.
• Divya Victor, ed., Conceptual writing (plural and global) and other cultural productions, Jacket2, February 2016.
• Matthew Whitley, These People Live Here: Conceptualism and the New Documentary Poetics, Arcade, July 2016.
• Daniel Penny, The Irrelevant and the Contemporary, The New Inquiry, August 2016.
• Leonard Villa-Forte, O autor como apropriador, Serrote, August 2016. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• yigru zeltil, A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing, khora impex, 2017, 174 pp.

Archives, Resources

• http://www.ubu.com/concept/
• /ubu Editions: Publishing the Unpublishable
• http://eclipsearchive.org/
• A Brief Guide to Conceptual Poetry, Academy of American Poets
• A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing (continuously updated list)