"Comparative Fates" [by David Lehman] - Sometimes you have the unexpected pleasure of finding a poem that you forgot you wrote and published. Here is one that appeared in Smartish Pace, issue #15...

napowrimo | day 2 - What is a hotel, but a hotel laid over another hotel? One leaning structure propped over another? In the mountains, the air is thin enough to make your no...

THE NEW FOX IN MY LIFE: A DESPATCH (SIC) FROM CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN. - recognition Behold, the vixen assembles herself for devotion. Yes, we believe this fine creature to be a female of the species. Our relationship started t...

(scrittura di) ricerca senza virgolette / marco giovenale. 2020 - Saranno almeno cinquanta-sessant'anni, più di mezzo secolo, che in Italia si parla di ricerca letteraria, così come - ovviamente - di teatro di ricerca; se...

"My Crickets": A Little Decameron - my crickets: a little decameron For the last week, a cricket has entered our house and rubbed his legs together endlessly. I love him as he moves from my...

Anne Tardos: “The Poet” from "The Exploding Nothingness of Never Define" - [A preview from Anne Tardos’s latest book of poetry, soon to be published by BlazeVOX Books, & a statement about the dynamics & the nature of “the poet”...

Tuesday poem #365 : Jami Macarty : The Daughter - Rather than a church prison with nun guards, a military prison held me. I tied my soldier’s clothes tightly round my body with dozens of cords to protec...

The Rabbits With Red Eyes has now been added to Goodreads! - Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" (published by Ethel Zine and Micro Press) has now been added to Goodreads. 💓 If you read the...

Quarantine Report Week 1 - *Quarantine Week 1 : 16 March-23 March 2020* *(I have decided to do a weekly quarantine reflection until the CoVid-19 wave "passes")* This week, from Iow...

Cheltenham Elegy #412 - #412 Each thinks the other a lonesome reprobate. That’s what I guess when I see the picture. It’s Elkins Park Square on a cold spring night; they’re almost...

One word more - … about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it. As the *thought *of th...

Two Poems by Amy King @ Tusculum Review - Pleased to post 2 of 3 poems published in the recent issue of Tusculum Review. Thanks to Heather Elouej for the invite. ✨ Enjoy! ✨ EXCERPT: We will probabl...

The Year in Poetry, 2019 - A thanks to the poets whose work I had a chance to hear in Portland in *2019*: *Akant*, Sara Deniz *Alexander*, Will *Ali*, Kazim *Armantrout*, Rae *Ashby...

49 of the 50 books I finished in 2019, in chronological order, plus audiobooks - Paper Books *The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading* (2018) — Edmund White *The Word Pretty* (2018) — Elisa Gabbert *Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photogr...

Contemporary Poetry seminars, Fall 2016 to Fall 2019 - I thought I'd post the list of books for the four seminars on Contemporary Poetry that I have taught at the English Department of the University of Basel f...

- I have been wrong about 2020’s presidential election and I should say so. I had expected that by the end of Super Tuesday (March 3rd this time around), we ...

8) Squeezing Out Sparks, Graham Parker (10 Rock Albums That Made My Sense of Music What It Is) - 10 (Rock) Albums That Made My Sense of Music What It Is 8) Squeezing Out Sparks, Graham Parker You have to understand, my friends in college were huge ...

Confession 2 - while people are starving, wealth is a crime. I am not willing to argue. if you are hungry, no laws apply. glass breaks easily. weapons can be made from a...

“Not wholly useless, though no longer used” - One of his last poems, published posthumously. Longfellow was never one for violent contention so I find it hard to take his analogy too seriously, but the...

- Friends, did I tell you that I have a new book out?

- I had a dream last night that I was in a car with Larry Eigner and Allen Ginsberg. Larry was driving. We drove over wooden slats in a muddy field and got s...

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SJ Fowler: A note on The Other Room - “The Other Room has come to an end. Ten years of remarkable events that have led the way in a resurgence of decidedly contemporary forward thinking poetry ...

Books Read 2017 - 1. Your Wilderness Or Mine- David Highsmith 2. Everything As Expected- James Herndon 3. Sin City: Hell And Back- Frank Miller 4. Enjoy Me- L...

HOW TO LOVE THE OUTLAW - At a panel on Polish poetry, with the poet and artist Grzegorz Wroblewski, one of the audience members, clearly annoyed, said he was sick of the idea of th...

Getting past the words - You Are There To them What they see And not Because there are others Elsewhere observing Something totally Different from Where Now dining table Too small F...

From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice in Print and Online! - So pleased to announce the availability of this book project that Rob Halpern and I have been working on for some 5 years. It is here and awaits you Dear ...

Border Poetry - My 13th post at the Harriet Blog: [Artemio Rodriguez, linocut] In 2006, I spent two of the best months of my life in Marfa, Texas, thanks to a residency f...

Links - Wild lettuce: http://www.corespirit.com/strong-morphine-natural-painkiller-grows-backyard/ Oldies on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

8. Summer camp - Last weekend I picked up my younger daughter from her “performing arts” summer camp in the Catskills; yesterday my older daughter got back on a Greyhound f...

Update - Please suspend any donations. Last Friday after two days of tests, scans, bone-marrow extraction and so on, our Doctor came in the evening to say the cance...

Red Berries: A Story from British India - A messenger from my great-aunt's house, that's my grandfather's sister, walks into the house and tells me I have been invited to eat grapefruit and that I ...

Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions - Aaron Smith's new collection, PRIMER, is due from Pitt on October 5 of this year. Here's a dead-on comment from Tracy K. Smith about Aaron's work: "*Aaron ...

New site! - I'm now blogging at my new website, http://carrieetter.com. Come along?

DAY 25: Annie Won! - Annie Won operates at the intersections of mind, body, and spirit, more particularly as a poet, yoga teacher, and medicinal chemist in the Boston area. Her...

- Literature for Nonhumans is now available for order at Ahsahta Press.

Re/Turn - Something is coming. we will be at Open Press in October!

- *Albuquerque Exercise [new]* She whooshes down like a wintry air curling around the corners of a mall, throws the café door wide and announces, I'm here for...

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Art and the WW1 commemoration controversy - I partly agree with Jonathan Jones's criticism of the official spectacular and attractive poppy installation, but not with his assertion that a true work o...

obligatory syllabus post - KRAFT OF FOETRY, version fall 2014 Last year when we revised the craft curriculum, we designed a two semester craft sequence for first year students. The f...

rage d / differx. 2014 - dedication illegally band here's bevy drinking should warburg direct ed by the map turns london that of frank musician he books novella sense jan mo b...

Kalamazoo XLIX (2014) - ViaHere are some of the sessions and parties I'm planning to go to at this year's Kalamazoo, in case anyone wants to stalk me and/or just have fun. Also, ...

SPD Today is migrating to Tumblr! - If you want to keep up with SPD in 2014 and forward, please visit us over at our Tumblr: http://smallpressdistribution.tumblr.com/ [image: http://smal...

New Writing - I wrote a piece about the critical response to Eleanor's Booker Prize winning novel The Luminaries for The Pantograph Punch. Which reminded me that there a...

- *MINOR AMERICAN AND YESYES BOOKS PRESENTS**:* *A BOOK PARTY FOR * *TANYA OLSON'**S* *BOYISHLY* *WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013DOORS OPEN: 7pmPERFORMANCES START...

Next Big Thing - QUESTIONS: What is the working title of the book? I’m not sure. The file on my computer is named “Pupils” but I’ve been thinking about the title “Mirage Re...

Hey! Update your links!! - Lemon Hound has a whole new life...see Volume 2 and keep checking back: more content added weekly. VOLUME 2* SAY DEMOCRATIC POETRY FOR ME POETRY Jonathan ...

ntamo on nyt www.ntamo.net - ntamon tuotteiden esittely ja verkkomyynti on siirretty kokonaan osoitteeseen www.ntamo.net (entinen kirjantamo.net). Kaikki tässä blogissa elokuuhun 2012 ...

Signal - from a place where there is time, and I will gather poems for a new issue. I don't know when in the future that might be, but I hope to get there, eventually.

New Titles by No Tell Poets - *China Cowboy* by Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press) *Reveal: All Shapes & Sizes* by Bruce Covey (Bitter Cherry Books) *TRISM* by Rebecca Loudon (Hors...

CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Nominated For Northern California Book Award for Poetry! Lorna Dee Cervantes at Awards Ceremony TODAY! - I'll be at the Northern California Book Awards, 2012, ceremony TODAY at the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Hall, 1-4 pm! My book, *CIENTO: 100 100-Word ...

Frank Sherlock on Etel Adnan - Much thanks to Exit Strata's Lynne Desilva-Johnson for the opportunity to share one of my great influences & one of the world's great writers. You can rea...

Reading in Portland - I mean, I can't imagine anyone still checks this thing, but just in case: I'm going to be in Portland in a few days! And I will be giving a reading with Sp...

The DIY Demos are back - I moved servers about a month ago but neglected to refresh the location info for the photos in the DIY chapbook demos. I didn't realize people were still...

25. “I want to get embarrassed / so much.” - The fact of this blog is that nothing would ever happen here if it could not happen all of a sudden. The prohibition against liking and not-liking is al...

- "In The Language of the Self Lacan begins by characterizing the space of the therapeutic transaction as an extraordinary void created by the silence of the...

Mrs. Maybe Has Moved - Hello to you and you and you, Mrs. Maybe has moved to a new website: http://mrsmaybe.wordpress.com/ All of our business, and your business will be conduct...

New Blog Space - I've finished moving my blog permanently to www.spooksbyme.org, Come visit me there!

I Have Gone - I have gone here. To be reborn in GOOGLE. This blog was cast out of the kingdom of Google. For no good earthly reason. But I'm out of tags here anyway now...

Tip out that old tea - "A blog may have at most 5000 labels." New places: Fiction and miscellaneous: jolindsaywalton.blogspot.com. Poetry: sadpresspoetry.wordpress.com. Poetry an...

Giovanni Arrighi, 1937-2009 - There have been few books of history and social theory--not quite sure where I can place it in terms of genre--as important as The Long Twentieth Century. ...

TINDERBOX LAWN by CAROL GUESS - KATHRYN STEVENSON Reviews *Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess* *(Rose Metal Press, Brookline, MA, 2008)* Carol Guess turns insides out, and her new poetry coll...

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H.D.'s "Helen" - Ron discusses H.D.'s short poem "Helen" today. It's interesting to hear the perspective of a poet coming across this piece for the first time, as he is; ...

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