Starved for funds, the United States Postal Service recently considered cutting its mail delivery service down to five-days a week–not a huge surprise considering their losses over the last couple…
Have you been been keeping up with our poem-a-day project? Kenny Goldsmith talks about the challenges of twenty-first century writing. Rae Armantrout won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry this year,…
Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there’s still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with…
Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? The list is updated every morning with new poemy goodness. Along with National Poetry Month, the big discussion this…
The poet Ai Ogawa died last week, and her official obituary is available here. Oliver de la Paz, who knew her briefly while he was in graduate school, had a…
You’ve probably heard of erasure as a poetic mode–how about redaction? Arthur Lubow looks at Adam Zagajewski, calls him “the last of his kind.” Lily Hoang at HTMLGIANT wonders about…
Congratulations to Rae Armantrout for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection Versed. This post by Al Filreis made me send him a Facebook friend request, just…
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate having to clear the cache? Maybe this time I’ll get better about bookmarking sites. Karin Slaughter has concerns about how e-books will…
Here’s a light-hearted start to the night–a cat decides a poetry video has to be stopped. A musing on poems with dates in the titles. Joshua Corey also responds to…
I’m always interested in new and engaging ways to bring writing to people, so with that in mind, Diagram’s 10th Anniversary issue is out–well, it’s not an issue, exactly. It’s…
Note: I’m adding this late, but it’s important. Our sincerest condolences go out to the friends and family and admirers of Lucille Clifton, who died yesterday at the age of…
I’m always interested in the different ways poets are exploring to get poems out to the reading public. Cellpoems calls itself “a txt-msg poetry journal,” though thankfully none of the…