I Hate Poetry… Reviews? June 4, 2009: Pictured above: not quite a dead horse, but one that looks a little flogged. (more...) by Don Share

Standing and waving May 18, 2009: The idea that poets and novelists possess separate and incompatible temperaments, like fortune-tellers and pharmacists, that poets are preoccupied with language (“for the life of the language”) while novelists are engrossed by society (“for the betterment of the world”), is a commonplace—perhaps also a consequence—of the paced [...] by Don Share

Craig Arnold May 8, 2009: 5/13: According to the Associated Press, "a team from a Japanese climbing group called Canyons will descend the steep, vegetation-covered slope where Arnold was tracked.... the climbers have committed to search for two days, starting Thursday morning in Japan." Via Find Craig Arnold: Our dear friends and family, Though Craig himself has [...] by Don Share

What Do You Know? April 13, 2009: Judith Shklar introduced her book Ordinary Vices by saying, "It is only if we step outside the divinely ruled moral universe that we can really put our minds to the common ills we inflict upon one another each day." I suppose poets these days aren't supposed to put their minds to grand tasks - you know, it's more like write a poem every day [...] by Don Share

Happy Birthday!!! March 25, 2009: Some folks didn't care for our recent commemoration of the centennial of Futurism - like we were endorsing it somehow, sheesh! Well, it's time to celebrate yet another birthday. (more...) by Don Share

So Little Depends upon a Little Red Rooster! March 18, 2009: Image courtesy of Muhammad Mahdi Karim, www.micro2macro.net Should poets write poems that describe things (like, say, this silly-looking rooster) ... or not? (more...) by Don Share

Translation and its discontents, part quatre February 27, 2009: "When I was reading an anthology of contemporary European poetry, I was struck by how much its poems tended to sound alike: in most cases, I couldn’t really tell what country or language a poetry had come from until I checked." (more...) by Don Share

I’ve decided to draw poems… February 2, 2009: Jason Guriel recently took a keen-eyed look at the visual poetry we presented in the November 2008 issue of Poetry. One of our readers, Jerry Payne, in Clearwater, Florida, wrote in to say: "Look, let’s call “visual poetry” what it really is—visual art. Some of us are in love with language and the way in which words—just words—can be [...] by Don Share

Of poetry and privilege January 23, 2009: Despite its principles, the Republic of Letters, as it actually operates, is a closed world, inaccessible to the underprivileged. (more...) by Don Share

The things people write in books! January 7, 2009: I mean literally, the things people scrawl on the flyleaves and in the margins of books. My mother taught me not to deface books, not even to dog-ear them, but tell it to a poet! There's real treasure in literary marginalia: notes, scribbles, and assorted editorial comments added to books. Take Blake's famous comment on Francis Bacon - [...] by Don Share