BOMBlog’s Word Choice features original works of poetry, fiction, and art. This edition of Word Choice, selected by Peter Moysaenko, features poetry by Laura Eve Engel and art by Coke O’Neal.

Blake and Harrison discuss notions under threat of extinction: self-expression, art not-for-reproduction, and being engaged in the here-and-now. Harrison’s new work is currently on view at Greene Naftali.

Jack Christian talks to Ben Kopel about Victory, an energetic, noisy book of poetry which turns it up to 11.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO Watch a BOMB Extra Video with artist Bjorn Copeland, who’s band Black Dice has a new album, Mr. Impossible, out now.

Greg Oden obsessive Neil Michael Hagerty chats up Jay Ruttenberg, editor of the new The Lowbrow Reader Reader.

Painter Billy Sullivan recalls the wisdom of Warhol, Woodstock wiles and the downside of mail-order boots. A show of his new work opens May 8 at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery.

Tom McCarthy and Margarita Gluzberg ask whether psychosis can ever be critical, whether matter can transmit, and what the word fiction finally means.

Web Extra Video Read excerpts from Yankelevich’s poem Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt plus a video by Yankelevich and Jeanne Liotta.

Jennifer Blowdryer’s aggressive, witty autobiographical prose inspired by work in [ 2FP ]’s exhibition Here Comes Everybody.

Read Biggers on Johnson, who has a show at MCA Chicago through August 5.

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Steven Holl Architects are the design team behind the new Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Critic Joseph Masheck and Holl discuss analog, metaphor, and Malevich.