Arcoholic in the house April 26, 2010: Hey Daisy, thanks your smart and thoughtful post. And for your other smart and thoughtful posts. I'm so pleased to be able to disagree or at least to announce a different tendency. I like books. I like books of poems more than I like poems. I also like novels more than short stories. I like arc! I like to get to know someone, a voice, a style, [...] by Rachel Zucker

Arcs and Arcoholics April 26, 2010:                                                        a good arc In a recent (positive) review, I noted that the book in question didn’t have much of an arc. Another poet-critic called me out on that in the comments stream of the online version of the review, asking why books of poems [...] by Daisy Fried

The Higher Dimensions of the Poem (Part 2) April 26, 2010: Eric Zboya is a student, currently exploring concepts of “transcendental dimensionality” in the book Un Coup de Dés by Stéphane Mallarmé—and toward this end, Zboya has been responding to experimental translations of this poem by such artists as Marcel Broodthaers, Guido Molinari, and Michalis Pichler (all of whom obliterate the lines [...] by Christian Bök

Is the correct term April 25, 2010: Thanks to Jeffrey Mcdaniel for calling attention to the situation in Arizona.  And I believe he's right when he says, "Perhaps we poets need to be caretakers of the language around this subject: for example, illegal alien vs. illegal immigrant vs. undocumented migrant." Of course, this conversation has been going on for about four decades if [...] by Javier Huerta

AT NIGHT THE STATES April 25, 2010: Instead of a FedEx shipping notice, I found a handwritten note lodged inside the cover of Alice Notley’s AT NIGHT THE STATES when it arrived. It read: Hello— I shipped this book to you once and it came back, so the second time I am shipping it PRIORITY MAIL, I hope it doesn’t come back again. Thanks, bestbookshop@aol.com [...] by Emily Warn

Ernest April 25, 2010: by Melissa Friedling

Knitting for Poets: Elizabeth Zimmermann April 25, 2010: The only thing that approaches the satisfaction of finishing a poem is completing a sweater. (more...) by A.E. Stallings

My Husband Said, April 25, 2010: "Don't tell anyone that. It's too embarassing." And he never says that. Here's what he didn't want me to admit: my secret weapon for running a 1/2 marathon. Yes, I've trained (sort of). And had my smart, pre-race breakfast. And I'm running with two friends (hopefully I can keep up with them) who will hopefully have something engaging to say [...] by Rachel Zucker

Shout Out to Nicole Cooley April 25, 2010: Will it be five years already? And yet the wounds of Hurricane Katrina have not healed completely. The ruins are still visible and people remain displaced, grim reminders of a natural phenomenon that demonstrated how even the most powerful nation in the world can be made vulnerable by the unpredictable forces of the weather. And those who felt [...] by Rigoberto González

The Hole (Notes) April 24, 2010: This next month I am revising and typesetting my first book of poems, tentatively titled The Hole. Writing so much criticism and essay and working a lot this past year, it has been difficult at times to hold the ms in my attention. Now that May is before me (the book is due to my publisher, the brilliant Brian Whitener of Displaced Press, June [...] by Thom Donovan