Ask Rae Armantrout Questions! August 15, 2011: Act now! Get over to Smartish Pace by August 29th, where you can finally ask Rae Armantrout those burning questions you've longed to ask! Mark Doty took questions last month, and has begun posting his answers. Here's an example: What is the best advice you've ever received from a poet? Like most PQAers, does this mean we’ll find new [...] by Harriet Staff

Poor Claudia Issue 5 Just Out August 15, 2011: Poet Brian Foley, writing swell oer at HTMLGIANT, points us to the very newest issue of Poor Claudia, a journal and small press based out of Portland, OR. The Poor Claudia folks write of issue no. 5: "Clean-cut, slim, and summery, if No. 5 were a cigarette she'd be a Gauloises, if she were a drink she'd be a tart negroni. Saddle-stitched [...] by Harriet Staff

The Rumpus Loves Tom Raworth August 15, 2011: The Rumpus is currently featuring a poem by Tom Raworth entitled “South America," which they found in Keith Tuma's Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry (Oxford, 2001) (it also appears in Tottering State and the Carcanet Collected Poems. They link to a reading of the poem, which is here, and write: It asks us to [...] by Harriet Staff

Nay, Anis Shivani says, Nay! August 15, 2011: Poetry's own Jeremiah continues to charm with a Huffington Post post called "Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship," in which he takes it to Sharon Olds, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, and ol' Philip Levine. Would you like a taste, dear readers? Here comes the airplane! Is there any poet [...] by Harriet Staff

Franklin Bruno Reviews Stan Apps August 15, 2011: Oer at Thought Catalog, Poetry Foundation contributor Franklin Bruno reviews poet and essayist Stan Apps's The World As Phone Bill, a new book of essays that came out from Combo books this spring. The book comprises text on John Cage, Hannah Weiner, Nada Gordon, Frank O'Hara, K. Silem Mohammad, Gary Sullivan, Rodney Koeneke, Mathew Timmons, [...] by Harriet Staff

the week we sold out August 12, 2011: We embraced pop culture at the behest of the folks at Carbon Copy Magazine, a new lit journal that claims Andy Warhol as an inspiration and answers Frequently Asked Questions in a poppy, addictive, Tom-Wolfean style (right down to the mid-sentence “poof!”). We will now embed Bananarama videos whenever we damned well feel like it. We met [...] by Harriet Staff

Levi’s Ad Pulled in UK August 12, 2011: The Bukowski-themed Levi's ad campaign that we reported on yesterday has been pulled in the UK due to the recent riots, according to an article in The Guardian. From the article: Levi's has withdrawn an advertising campaign that features a young man squaring up to riot police after a public outcry that it glorified the recent public [...] by Harriet Staff

Swift Outrage from Pakistani Poets at Shooting of Unarmed Man by Security Forces August 12, 2011: The Huffington Post reports that Pakistani poets are outraged by the death of an unarmed man at the hands of security forces in the southern city of Karachi, "an incident caught on videotape and broadcast widely": Editorial writers demanded justice. Television talking heads decried the brutality of the men in uniform. And then, a few [...] by Harriet Staff

I Was Standing in a Hole the Other Day: an Interview with Jennifer Denrow August 12, 2011: Jennifer Denrow, author of two chapbooks and the full-length California, took part in an interview with Whitney DeVos at Sonora Review. The interview centers around dislocation and Wonder (or the sad lack thereof) as evidenced by these examples: WD: As regards bewilderment and imagination—how do you see these relating to our position [...] by Harriet Staff

Studying the Poetry of Ryan Trecartin August 12, 2011: Rhizome has an awesome essay about Ryan Trecartin's use of text and language in his work, even placing the artist close to realms inhabited by the likes of Kenny Goldsmith and Sharon Mesmer. However aligned with conceptual or flarf techniques and ideas, writes Brian Droitcour, Trecartin is different: Trecartin keeps everything. His [...] by Harriet Staff