The Digerati Strike Back October 25, 2009: It was bound to happen: based on Paul Zukofsky's recent draconian copyright comments, the digerati have struck back and posted a fully indexed, OCR'd PDF of A. by Kenneth Goldsmith

harper, jeannie, betsy October 25, 2009: by Melissa Friedling

A Story In Dust October 24, 2009: My friend's uncle was sick and not long for the world. He has one of those thousand-acre ranches in Texas that breeds large horses, the sort of animal that fits on large ranches. He and his wife also breed large dogs, (more...) by Edwin Torres

Commenting on Comments October 23, 2009: The only thing worth saying in a book review, Raymond Carver once said, is Good job, keep writing! Some people hearing that line assumed he was soft-hearted if not soft-minded – but Carver was neither. He knew that writing, especially personal writing, is an act of courage in which we expose ourselves -- what we stand for, what we believe, [...] by John S. O'Connor

Vendler, vidi, vici October 22, 2009: In his introduction to Something Understood—the recent volume of poems and essays honoring critic Helen Vendler—Stephen Burt notes how her readings of poetry lead her back to the poets themselves. In Vendler’s aesthetics of sympathy, “the effort to understand how a form works as it does, why it moves us, why a poet chose to use it, is [...] by Abigail Deutsch

steel nests on their own terms, part I October 22, 2009: This past Sunday, a very wet, windy and gray version of a day, I paid a visit to a small, piano-shaped storefront at 266 W. 37th street to see an installation consisting of one hundred steel nests of varying sizes made by the sculptor Alison Collins. (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Sarah and Heather October 20, 2009: by Melissa Friedling

In the echo of ‘co’ October 20, 2009: The 'po' whisperer (more...) by Edwin Torres

Rachel McKibbens, ‘Pink Elephant’ (Cypher Books, 2009) October 20, 2009: Rachel McKibbens's lovely and serrated debut collection, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books), reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five, 2009 Women’s Individual World Poetry Slam champion Rachel McKibbens writes about abandonment and abuse in stark, startling language and well-wrought fable, delivered [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

Continued… October 19, 2009: …if we change the words, do we change the thing/s? PERSON: email to a friend: Century of the Self: charting development of the kind of radical individualism in which freedom of the individual is more tied to individual (unconscious) desire than to individual action. The freedom of the individual (democracy) can be strangely disconnected from [...] by Tonya Foster