DMP Summary and Receipts: 10/17 to 11/14
With the recent promotional period over, I want to offer a breakdown of the book sales of Interrogation Days and the associated...
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R.M. Haines
- Nov 3
- 15 min
A Conversation About INTERROGATION DAYS
The following is a conversation between Tim Carter and R.M. Haines about the latter's new chapbook, Interrogation Days, from Dead Mall...
R.M. Haines
- Oct 17
- 3 min
New Release from Dead Mall Press
My new chapbook, Interrogation Days, is now available for pre-order! This book focuses on the psychic toll of two decades of the US "War...
R.M. Haines
- Jul 19
- 2 min
Dead Mall Press: Update and Receipts (7.19.22)
It has been a somewhat quiet period for the press this summer, and this has been perfectly fine with me. Since the pre-order and release...
R.M. Haines
- Apr 3
- 2 min
Dead Mall Press: Update and Receipts (4.4.22)
As the pre-order period for the press’s first three booklets has ended, I want to offer my gratitude to everyone who supported this...
R.M. Haines
- Mar 21
- 2 min
from "The Ghost Mine Explodes"
On Psycho-Materialist Poetics Psycho-materialism is a poetics attentive to the interpenetration of psyche and matter. As a theory, it...
R.M. Haines
- Mar 7
- 1 min
About "Dysnomia"
Dysnomia is a micro-chapbook of 11 pages. It is a chaotic collage of fragments from late-2019/early-2020. Some historical references are...
R.M. Haines
- Mar 7
- 5 min
ANNOUNCING DEAD MALL PRESS
I'm happy to announce the launch of Dead Mall Press, a chapbook press that will donate a large portion of its earnings to mutual aid,...
R.M. Haines
- Sep 20, 2020
- 8 min
Third Minds Emerging
Psychic Intersections and The Ticket that Exploded Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I...
R.M. Haines
- Sep 17, 2020
- 18 min
Reading the Pharmakon: Part III
Crossing Out Into Xenon To endure such a rigorous and sustained assault on the essential poetic metaphors is a fierce initiation. --Iain...
R.M. Haines
- Jun 28, 2020
- 10 min
"Reverse Submittable" and the Dream of Co-operative Publishing
Introduction to a Thought Experiment Of the ideas pitched to help revolutionize how we do poetry publishing, one that appears now and...
R.M. Haines
- Jun 18, 2020
- 10 min
On Poetry, Prestige, and Power
Thoughts in the Wake of Uprisings and the Poetry Foundation Controversy In a revolutionary time, the role of the poet can be exposed in...
R.M. Haines
- May 19, 2020
- 20 min
Poets Should Be Socialists
A Critique of the Literary-Academic System As stated in a previous post, there are political reasons for deciding to freely self-publish...
R.M. Haines
- Apr 20, 2020
- 11 min
Reading the Pharmakon: Part II
Poetic Shamanism and the Word as Virus The god of writing is thus also a god of medicine. --Jacques Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy” Language...
R.M. Haines
- Apr 14, 2020
- 7 min
Reading the Pharmakon: Part I
A Primer on the Work of Michael S. Judge Over the last decade or so, Michael S. Judge has produced a body of literature that is...
R.M. Haines
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
On Self-Publishing My Book
I am happy to say I'll be releasing my full length collection of poems, A Dark Address, on Gumroad for free [Update: it is now available...
R.M. Haines
- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
from "Identity and Its Discontents: Notes on Rimbaud"
Child, certain skies have sharpened my eyesight: their characters cast shadows on my face.* Otherness is there from the start. From...
R.M. Haines
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
from "Revolt and Divination: Notes on Sean Bonney’s "Letters Against the Firmament"
The invisible, whatever that is. As if it didn’t hover above us. Announce itself with blue fire.* The invisible is not nothing. There...
R.M. Haines
- Jan 28, 2020
- 4 min
Exiting the Poetry Casino
Poetry is an economic paradox: it both is and is not a commodity. While some theorize that its economy is based more on giving than...
R.M. Haines
- Jan 19, 2020
- 4 min
The Poet As Producer
In his 1934 essay, “The Author as Producer,” Walter Benjamin sought a revolutionary, anti-fascist literature by arguing that writers must...