The brilliant experimental poet Leslie Scalapino passed away two days ago, after a decades-long career of crafting devastatingly frank, beautiful, and sometimes longingly abstract poetry. The founder of O Books, a press that helped many emerging poets and writers to get their start, Leslie will have three books published this summer and fall from Litmus Press, Post-Apollo Press, and Chax Press, and Poets House in New York will stage her play Flow-Winged Crocodile June 19th and 20th.