The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your...

In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;    I hear my echo in the echoing wood— A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren,    Beasts of the hill and serpents of the...

Before we sign off for the Memorial Day long weekend (yes, we get away from the internets from time to time), we wanted to end the week with a little love, that is, some BJ Love! Episode 5 of his Pretty Lit podcast series features a mash-up of...

Poetry and theater are necking in the coat closet again–if you’re in New York on June 3, check out the CUNY Graduate Center Segal Theatre’s latest extraordinary programming, “Poetry in Theatre: Early Frank O’Hara + Plays by Contemporary...

Every poet’s favorite story writer, Lydia Davis, has won the Booker International Prize, reports the New York Times: Lydia Davis, the American writer known for her very short stories, has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize. The award,...

For ten years I would not say the name. I said: episode. Said: setback, incident, exacerbation—anything but be specific in the way this is specific, not a theory or description, but a diagnosis. I said: muscle, weakness, numbness, fatigue. I...

Poets and publishers, CJ Martin and Julia Drescher, are two of many currently experiencing the aftershocks of last week’s tornado that ripped through Oklahoma and Texas. Martin and his partner, Julia Drescher, are asking for your help as they...

We’re having a grand-ole time ransacking (“‘Co-mates (co-mates?)”) the wonderful early (early?) online journal onedit, now-defunct (defunct?), sadly. Anyhow, our time is grand ole ESPECIALLY for the existence of “Edith & Enid,” by...

We’re saddened to hear about the death of German-lyric poet, Sarah Kirsch. Kirsch died on May 5th: her death was recently announced by her publisher, the Munich-based publishing house Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), a Random House subsidiary. From...

I thought about his death for so many hours, tangled there in the wires of the night, that it came to have a body and dimensions, more than a voice shaking over the telephone or the black obituary boldface of name and dates. His death now...

‘Tis happening, friends! Not only are your favorite fiction and non-fiction books available in electronic formats•but now•your favorite books of poetry are rapidly becoming available in e-book form, as reported by The Associated Press in the...

Over at the Ploughshares blog is a conversation with Seattle-area poet and pie expert Kate Lebo, who is more than expert; she’s the “proprietress (or rather, proPIEtress) of Pie School, which teaches pastry-phobics the art of the perfect pie....

We have our friends at the Paris Review blog to thank for pointing us to Open Culture where they’ve posted the celestial syllabus to Allen Ginsberg’s 1977 course at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. A bit about the class: “Argh,...

After a brief hiatus for National Poetry Month, our monthly Reading List returns. In this installment, contributors to Poetry’s May issue share what they have been thumbing through: Michelle Boisseau The UC London biochemist and writer Nick...

Omnidawn announced the winner of the 2012 Open Poetry Book Prize this week: Endi Bogue Hartigan, for her manuscript pool [5 choruses]. Hartigan hails from Portland, Oregon where she works for the state university system. Her writing has been...

We’d be remiss to leave off without giving birthday wishes to Robert Creeley, who would have been 87 today. We have poems galore here to celebrate, and other accoutrement. Thanks also to Chris Stevens for pointing us to this lecture by Creeley on...

The East Bay Poetry Summit is almost here! The East Bay Poetry Summit begins this weekend in Berkeley! (Thanks, in part, to generous donations to its successful Indiegogo campaign.) The summit will draw poets from across the U.S. to Oakland and...

At his Samizdat blog, Robert Archambeau reflects on Marjorie Perloff’s recent talk on Paul Celan at the University of Chicago’s new Logan Center (and he quite admired it): We tend to see Celan almost exclusively in the context of Holocaust...

Looking for a new art project to fund, one that might provide some spiritual redemption? We have an idear, having just noticed that Kevin Killian and Felix Bernstein, among others, are collaborating on a new film called BOYLAND. “The pomp and...

Granary Books announces an important new title–Archive from “A Secret Location”–and oddly enough, we were just talking about its precursor the other day, recalling it as a necessary read for those interested in the history of the small-press...