Name That Goon September 24, 2009: It took me about two seconds to name the unexpected speaking voice of poet/critic/professor Joshua Clover as I flicked past the NPR station. I flicked back. He was being interviewed because today he's going on strike! Or at least walking out. We wish him well. by Rebecca Wolff

SpeedReviews(TM) September 23, 2009: Poetry magazine people: How many review copies of poetry books do y'all receive? It must be bargeloads, because I'm just one low-rent sometime-freelancer who writes maybe five or six reviews a year, and I get something like, I don't know, probably six or eight review copies a month. Some from presses, some from the poets themselves. Let there [...] by Joel Brouwer

Poetry Reading September 23, 2009: Molly Young and David Noriega read Michael Gizzi's New Depths of Deadpan. by Travis Nichols

Myself: The Exclusive Interview! September 22, 2009: Each of us contains multitudes, but, as we all know, the multitudes can be pretty dull. Thank heavens, then, for Myself, who arrives on the scene via By Myself, a sort of Everybody’s autobiography by the poets D.A. Powell and David Trinidad. It begins: To put it in two words: disaster struck.  I was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, [...] by Poetry Foundation

Cleve-Land September 20, 2009: Back from reading at Cleveland State University on Thursday. It was hard to follow Kate Greenstreet--she has the most ingratiatingly nearsighted stage presence. You really feel as though she is speaking to you--Because she is! In various deft registers of notation and declamation and preoccupation. She's on this massive, amazing, awe-inspiring [...] by Rebecca Wolff

Ramadan Rosh Hashana New Moon 1 September 19, 2009: A word’s an act, and no one can recover it. Sometimes the thing we name suddenly becomes…what? A being, almost human, that the very calling kills” from Heather McHugh’s “The Magician” in To The Quick -copied in one of my notebook, among my notes on the social geography and history of New Orleans. This morning was cold. Cooler [...] by Tonya Foster

Keats lives! (for a while) September 18, 2009: Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate:— 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article. —Lord Byron Keats didn’t actually die because of a bad review. But if he had, how would he feel now that Bright Star, Jane Campion’s film about him, is garnering so much positive press? Being [...] by Abigail Deutsch

Being Here September 18, 2009: "Here" at the University of Alabama's creative writing program we've been enjoying this week the company of poet Juliana Spahr. Scare quotes exhaustively (and perhaps exhaustingly) explained after the jump. (more...) by Joel Brouwer

Catalina Cariaga, ‘Cultural Evidence’ (Subpress Collective, 1999) September 16, 2009: Of course they didn't eat dogs. They didn't have dogs. If they had dogs they would have eaten them. --Catalina Cariaga This poem, "Dogmeat," is one of the opening poems to Catalina Cariaga's Cultural Evidence (Subpress Collective). I really can't think of a better way to start off a collection of poetry concerned with weighing the given [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

Jim Carroll (1949-2009) September 16, 2009: I toured with Jim Carroll in 1990. It was sort of an honor. He was the exact same age as me but when I came to town in the poetry world he already had everything – a book from a big press with a Larry Rivers cover called Living at the Movies and parts of his Basketball Diaries had been published in Paris Review while he was still a teenager. [...] by Eileen Myles