AERIAL #5

In 1984, along with Wayne Kline, Rod Smith began the journal Aerial Magazine, a poetry magazine devoted to avant-garde and experimental writing. Aerial Magazine #5, edited by Rod Smith; cover by Hope Sandrow -- includes twenty pages from Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's erotic travelogue "The Wide Road," Tina Darragh interviewed by Joan Retallack, selections from Jackson Mac Low's "Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters," Andrew Levy's "Rumi Improvisations," Gretchen Johnsen's Journals, Retallack on Cage, Barbiero on Bernstein, Smith Nash on Todorov, and much else. Elaine Equi, Bruce Andrews, Julia Blumenreich, Susan Smith Nash, Eric Wirth, Carla Harryman, Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian, Jackson Mac Low, Alan Davies / Charles Bernstein, Tina Darragh, Hank Lazer, Loris Essary, Robert Gregory, Wayne Kline, Gretchen Johnson, Andrew Levy, Joanne Marinelli, Ray DiPalma, Peter Middleton, Janet Gray, Joan Retallack, David Bristol, Stephen-Paul Martin, Ivan Argüelles, Shiela E. Murphy, A.L. Nielsen, Dan Raphael, Rod Smith, Daniel Barbiero