David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Portland!
Portland Goes Wild for Mathew Dickman and the Objectivist Tradition Now: I can’t tell you whether or not two days ago I was in a brief e-mail back and forth…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: If You Ain’t Got Your Poetics, Man, You’re Sunk
I’m glad to see Joshua Weiner wrestle so diligently and forthrightly with Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems over on The Los Angeles Review. His review deserves attention, and…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Naming Names
Michael Lista nails it with his review of The Open Door: One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, the anthology celebrating 100 years of Poetry, edited by Don Share and Chistian…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Make John Koethe’s Day
Publisher’s Weekly gives the red star treatment to John Koethe’s ninth book of poems, ambiguously titled ROTC Kills. PW’s reviewer says Koethe is “an amiable hybrid of late Wallace Stevens,…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Roaring Editors
The Academy of American Poets is featuring Terese Svoboda’s generous tribute to a relatively unknown 1920’s proletariat poet, Lola Ridge. Svoboda isn’t just knocked out by Ridge. She compares her…