YST Publications is a publishing collective dedicated to the dissemination and performance of poetry and text events throughout the Bard community. Begun in the fall of 2013, with the objective of providing the opportunity for Bard poets to publish their work, YST has grown from a three-person editorial board to a 25-member collective. As a collective, we function as a troupe, a one-on-one peer-editing service, a workshop, and a think-tank.
Last fall, YST Publications had a highly successful and productive season. We held two poetry readings, one at the start of Fall semester and one to celebrate the publication of YST III, in which Bard professor and poet Anne Carson, and her partner, Bob Currie participated. We also staged two multimedia happenings, S(R)OUND and Dada Night, both of which situated poetry within a wider spectrum of performative activity, including video, music, sound installation, stage magic, Dadaist poetry composition, and collaboration with Bard’s Surrealist Training Circus. We also branched out into screenings that explored poetry through the medium of film. Finally, we published two more editions of YST, one generated through collage at Dada Night (YST II.V) and another, regular issue, YST III: Pseudoscience.
This spring, we plan on publishing YST IV, and an omnibus collection of previous issues with new poetry and commentary on the process of the collective, which will include CDs of recordings made at past readings. We also look forward to continuing our film screenings, and working more closely with the Root Cellar, SMOG, and WXBC to continue live poetry on campus. Furthermore, YST is pleased to announce that we will begin a bookbinding workshop in order to explore experimental publishing methods.
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