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We are happily chained to Tripwire 9: TRANSNATIONAL / TRANSLATIONAL, which contains, among much else, work and translation from the likes of Don Mee Choi, Harry Gilonis & Ch’iu Chin, Mette [...]
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Lately, everything I write refutes something I wrote earlier — even when the work remains unpublished, dying peacefully. This makes my logic so circular, so directed at myself (rather than the [...]
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At Slate, Colin Dickey counters Christian Lorentzen’s strident New York Mag diatribe “Could We Just Lose Adverbs (Already)” with his own similarly strident “Adverbs Are [...]
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As this New York Times article reveals, James Franco has been reading a little Tony Hoagland. “Hoagland’s poems gather and distribute so much energy it’s like he’s a boxer,” he [...]
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We are delighted to announce that Diana Hamilton is Harriet’s featured blogger for the month of June! In advance of Hamilton’s first post (keep your eyes here on Monday), we’d like [...]
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Well this is lousy news. Founded over 60 years ago by T.S. Eliot, England’s Poetry Book Society is shutting its doors due to a lack of funding. From the Guardian: The organisation, which saw [...]
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“This is a spectacular occasion. I feel like I’m having an out-of-body experience,” said Liz Howard last night. It’s thrilling news for a deserving poet! Howard, author of [...]
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The New York Times talked for months with Vito Acconci, and today we reap the reward. Opening June 19 at MoMA PS1, Vito Acconci: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976—the first retrospective [...]
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Fonograf Editions debuts this week with Eileen Myles reading Aloha/Irish Trees on vinyl. Portland-based poet Jeff Alessandrelli is the founder of Fonograf Editions, which, in collaboration with [...]
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Dwight Garner reviews Rita Dove’s soaring Collected Poems: 1974–2004 at the New York Times. “She’s funny; she’s after experience; her opinions are fresh,” Garner writes. More: [...]
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British poet Alice Oswald, author most recently of Memorial–and a member of the Griffin Poetry Prize jury for 2016–talks to The Globe and Mail about how the temperament of her own work [...]
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Good news for Elizabeth Alexander! The acclaimed poet has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board. At the Ford Foundation, where she began work last year as the Director of Creativity and Free [...]
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More from England’s Hay Festival: Germaine Greer claims William Shakespeare brought erotic poetry to “ordinary women” such as wives and servants, for the first time. “This is [...]
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At the Guardian Homa Khaleeli accesses novelist Salman Rushdie’s recent comments at the Hay Festival about the “lost art” of poem memorization. In this article, read a few [...]
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At Clocktower Radio, check out the latest installment of “Boat Books” (part of the larger program “Paper Cuts”), where hosts Taylor Yates and Christopher Kardambikis talk to [...]
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A conference report from “Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK” (aka RAPAPUK), held in London in February, has been posted at the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (no sub [...]
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Siren Aria (a fragment) …It’s still conductive, pornographic. The plumbing a listening hose for strangers rooting around In the house’s howls: I [...]
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News finally reached us over the transom that Curbside Splendor Publishing, a Chicago-based publisher of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, will be opening a new bookstore/record store/cafe/event [...]
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As director of Faber & Faber, T.S. Eliot rejected George Orwell’s now-classic Animal Farm explaining “we have no conviction … that this is the right point of view from which to [...]