Andrew Feld & Pimone Triplett 02.12.07-02.16.07
Husband and wife Feld and Triplett alternate between the nuts and bolts of putting a literary magazine together and the Sublime aspects of alt rock and online porn.


Peter Campion 02.05.07-02.09.07
Campion tickles Elmo, exchanges text for art, and tells of the Romanian poet who fell into a river.


Kenneth Goldsmith 1.22.07-1.26.07
Goldsmith details his boredom, argues that Staples is the best bookstore we have, and excerpts some of the most creative uncreative writing going.


Gillian Conoley 01.08.07-01.12.07
Conoley invokes Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and user comments to probe the relationship between war and poetry.


Catherine Wagner: 12.11.06-12.15.06
Wagner talks about her impulse to anthologize, breaking down her forthcoming anthology on motherhood and poetry, which she hopes won't be like those "horrible anthologies of poems on cats, or . . . poems on one's vacation home."


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 10.23.06-10.27.06
As the tour winds down, Edwin Torres entertains and Bill the bus driver tells us things that only he could know.


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 10.16.06-10.20.06
Jen Bervin hopped on the bus in Phoenix, AZ, and writes of the transcendent Roden Crater and records part of a collaboration—with Joshua Clover, Juliana Spahr, Jen Hofer, and Stephanie Young—conducted before, during, and after her stint on tour. Edwin Torres awaits the bus in Los Angeles, where he participated in a conference on experimental poetry, called "Impunities."


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 10.09.06-10.13.06
The tour hits its stride in the Deep South, where Carrie St. George Comer experiences turbulence on the plane to Durham, NC, and Gillian Conoley describes Tuscaloosa, AL as "a bit of a hellhole," and meditates on Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans, LA.


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 10.02.06-10.06.06
Catie Rosemurgy rolls with the Bus out of Philadelphia to read to poet-midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Carrie St. George Comer prepares to meet up with the tour in Durham, NC, and writes, "I'm 35, so looking hot is now out. I have to look cool and sort of smart, without appearing to have tried and all that."


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 09.25.06-09.29.06
Kate Hall chronicles the Canadian leg of the bus tour and the arrival of the Typing Explosion. Major Jackson reports from Boston, MA, and asks, "What was going on?" Poet David Rivard replies, "You're in a Fellini film, and you don't know it."


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 09.18.06-09.22.06
Cathy Wagner reports on the showdown between the slam poets and the bus poets at Chicago's famed Green Mill. Anthony McCann writes on trouble at the Jellystone Park RV campsite, a reading in a seedy district of Pittsburgh, PA, and "spasms of starlings [that] freeze in patterns of fuzzy static over the yellow fields."


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 09.11.06-09.15.06
Tina Celona maps the surprisingly well-attended readings in Laramie, WY, and Lincoln, NE; Cathy Wagner wonders, en route to meet the bus in Minneapolis, MN, just exactly what she's getting herself into.


Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour: 09.05.06-09.08.06
Wave Books co-editor Matthew Zapruder kicks off the 50-cities-in-50-days bus tour with dispatches from the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, WA. Erin Belieu picks up with a report of a car crash that nearly ended the Missoula, MT, reading before it began.


Lorna Dee Cervantes: 08.28.06
Cervantes on Blogville, macaronic phrases, and why her mother called her "The Writer Who Never Writes." Due to technical difficulties, Cervantes' blog was interrupted. We hope to reschedule it in the near future.


Bill Zavatsky: 08.14.06-08.18.06
Zavatsky on poetry's potential for human connection, a 1980s computer called the Kaypro, and under-recognized NYC poets such as Harvey Shapiro, Hugh Seidman, and Angelo Verga.


Cathy Park Hong and Adrian Blevins: 07.31.06-08.04.06
Hong and Blevins go back and forth on the madness of John Berryman, the music of sentences, and the place in poetry of terms like "visionary heterglossia."


Steve Young: 07.24.06-07.28.06
Dispatches from the Krakow Poetry Seminars in Poland, where politics and poetry can't avoid each other.


Maureen N. McLane: 07.10.06-07.14.06
McLane on Billy Collins vs. William Collins, Schuyler's daffodils vs. Wordsworth's, and her favorite pop lyrics of 2006.


Patricia Spears Jones: 07.03.06-07.07.06
Spears Jones on class, "the gift of sorority," and why poets need to risk more in their art.


Rachel Zucker: 06.19.06-06.23.06
Zucker presents her theory of foxes and weighs the worth of hyper self-consciousness.


Terrance Hayes: 06.05.06-06.09.06
Hayes wishes: 1. to ramble less, 2. to have no one laugh when he says "I'd like to brutalize quite a few of our leaders," 3. to apologize to a few lost friends, and 4. eliminate the need for sleep.


April Ossmann: 05.22.06-05.26.06
Ossman on why good editing is a form of writing, and what it means to belong to a feminist cooperative press.


Jeff Shotts: 05.08.06-05.12.06
Jeff Shotts describes his role as editor at Graywolf Press, and takes on the thorny issue of "themed" poetry books.


Kim Addonizio: 04.24.06-04.28.06
Addonizio on poetry as: psychic map, thumbprint, spiritual practice, antimatter, and ego fulfillment.


Kwame Dawes: 04.10.06-04.14.06
Dawes on why he loves gossip and how the question "What does it mean?" teaches people to mistrust poetry (and poets).


Tracie Morris: 03.27.06-03.31.06
Morris on experimental writing, the poet as jester, and Shakespeare as a nightclub bouncer.


Joshua Weiner: 03.13.06-03.17.06
Weiner recounts snowy winters in Provincetown and reveals who's buried next to Gregory Corso in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.


Brian Turner: 02.27.06-03.03.06
Turner lists the books he carried in his assault pack in Iraq and discusses the constraints of writing poetry in a combat zone.


Erin Belieu: 02.13.06-02.17.06
Belieu waxes nostalgic for late '70s rock 'n' roll, explains why writing a poem is like being in a sci-fi flick, and suggests that bloggers start "crush lists" for male poets.


Olena Kalytiak Davis 1.30.06-2.3.06
Davis tells you what she's wearing, reveals the track list for her next mix CD, and wonders whether using real names in poems is "always a shitty dolphinesque thing to do."

Robert Hershon 02.19.07-02.23.07
Hershon travels back to his formative years in New York and San Francisco, evoking the likes of Jack Spicer, Bob Kaufman, and the coiner of the word "Beatnik."


W.S. Di Piero 1.29.07-02.02.07
Di Piero responds to an e-mail from "someone I was in love with 20 years ago," details a wicked bar fight, and ruminates on Bergman, Monster, and The Limey.


Janet Holmes 1.15.06-1.18.06
Holmes talks process, Oulipo, her second life as a painter, and stealing away to a law library carrel to write poems.


Patricia Smith 12.18.06-12.22.06
Smith reveals the many shapes her muse takes, riffs on her Chicago childhood, and talks frankly about doing a low-residency MFA.


Kay Ryan 12.04.06-12.08.06
Ryan works out blog anxiety, riffs on ekphrastic poetry, and argues the merits of emptiness, all while actively engaging reader comments.


Mark Thwaite 11.27.06-12.01.06
Thwaite shouts from across the Pond his take on the controversy over the recent Elizabeth Bishop book, the chimerical nature of translated Paul Celan, and the British poet Roy Fisher jazz-inspired writing.


Major Jackson 11.13.06-11.17.06
Jackson narrates his life of staying up late, driving dangerously, and being slightly nervous about running into the police.


Rigoberto González: 11.06.06-11.10.06
González on being a Chicano poet, how to review a book, and his complicated response to the only poem his father ever wrote.


William Logan: 10.30.06-11.03.06
Logan hates hate speech so much he hates himself for hating it. He also responds to critics of his criticism, invokes Lenny Bruce, and dissects Annette Bening.


Bread Loaf: 08.22.06-08.26.06
A cross-section of Bread Loaf's hierarchy reports on the deer on Fire Island, the winners of the dance-off (highly contested), and the many ways to embarrass yourself at the conference sometimes known as "Bed Loaf."


Monica Youn: 08.07.06-08.11.06
Youn on broiling trout, the love life of a cartoon mouse, and the liberating nature of the lyric third-person.


Joy Harjo: 07.17.06-07.21.06
Harjo on poetry, patriotism, and why some Americans think she's a ghost.


Lisa Robertson: 06.26.06-06.30.06
Robertson ranges from the virtues of pockets, to Situationism, to the fact that America needs better pornography.


C. Dale Young: 06.12.06-06.16.06
Young passes along wise words from his teacher, Donald Justice, and explains how he overcame poetry prejudices against opera, sports, and inmates.


Mónica de la Torre: 05.29.06-06.02.06
De la Torre discusses curating a reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club and micro-publishing in the face of Barnes & Noble.


Jeffrey McDaniel: 05.15.06-05.19.06
McDaniel on immigration, his own notebooks, and the rain in Brooklyn.


Richard Siken: 05.01.06-05.05.06
Siken confesses to a few lies, and claims that he stubbed his toe on a hamburger.


Clare Cavanagh: 04.17.06-04.21.06
Cavanagh translates Wislawa Szymborska's do's and don'ts for beginning poets, which include the following tips: 1. Don't play at bard-dom. 2. Describe boredom with gusto. 3. Alcohol won't help.


Kazim Ali: 04.03.2006-04.07.2006
Ali explains why he loves the fact that Björk can't hit a low note and takes us behind the scenes as his poems are adapted into dances.


Jonathan Galassi: 03.20.06-03.24.06
Jonathan Galassi on working in the poetry biz, his own translations, and being one of the most sought after editors in the country.


Ange Mlinko: 03.06.06-03.10.06
Ange Mlinko on the poetic line and why she sometimes goes nuts for James Schuyler.


Joshua Beckman: 02.20.06-02.24.06
Beckman wonders whether poets are the "unacknowledged legislators of the world" and offers quotes from the Shelleys.


Tyehimba Jess: 2.6.06-2.10.06
Jess remembers his education at the Green Mill, recommends some favorite blues musicians, and praises Sharon Olds' letter to Laura Bush.


Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin 1.23.06-1.27.06
Dumanis and Marvin on walking around a poem as you would a house, living poets' crushes on dead poets, and why Legitimate Dangers is an anthology of poems, not poets.