Surely the last word(s) on the Paris Review’s Unacceptance? July 22, 2010: @We Who Are About to Die, a Part 4 in which another rejected poet explains why he's sad. @Nothing to Say and Saying It, John Gallaher gives us the new theme song for the Paris Review. @Pansy Poetics a forlorn poet left hanging in his finest tuxedo. @Seinfeld, well, this is just a funny episode. by Harriet Staff

A call for tributes to Leslie Scalapino June 9, 2010: The online journal Delirious Hem is soliciting tributes--both poetic and scholarly--to the poet Leslie Scalapino, who died last month: Leslie Scalapino's writing placed inside/outside events together with/in spacetime. Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing. We invite you to [...] by Harriet Staff

This is what a feminist [poet] looks like May 11, 2010: The online journal Delirious Hem features Asian-American Kundiman fellows exploring feminist poetics: Where do you draw your poetic lineages from the poetries of Asian American female or gender-non-conforming poets? How do you (do you) intersect with feminist poetics? Other communities of women? Transgendered/gender-variant communities? [...] by Harriet Staff

Tulsa Kid in Scandanavia May 9, 2010: Read all about Ron Padgett's travels in Nowhere Magazine: Sunday, August 11: Copenhagen After a blessedly eventless overnight SAS flight from Newark, Pat and I land at Kastrup Airport, whose runways have that typical early morning foggy European airport look. Train (cheap and fast) to Copenhagen’s Central Station. Walk a few blocks to the [...] by Harriet Staff

Remembering the poet Al Robles May 5, 2010: (image courtesy of FilAmARTS) Tony Robes, editor of Poor Magazine, writes in memory: "May 2nd is the one-year anniversary of the passing of my uncle, the poet Al Robles. Uncle Al was someone who believed in the coming together and celebration of community. Every encounter in his life was a homecoming. If you encountered him on the street or [...] by Harriet Staff

“So what are we coming down to then? The direct presence of a penis or a vagina?” May 4, 2010: Blake Butler, Kate Zambreno, Amy King, and Roxane Gay talk gender trouble in the literary world at HTMLGiant: "Roxane: Different editors are going to have different opinions about what their responsibilities are. I believe it is my responsibility to be as inclusive as possible. While it is “the work that matters most,” as so many editors [...] by Harriet Staff

Walt Whitman, Blogger May 4, 2010: Open Letters Monthly excerpts from Whitman's Civil War reports in blog fashion: "I am back again in Washington, on my regular daily and nightly rounds. Of course there are many specialties. Dotting a ward here and there are always cases of poor fellows, long-suffering under obstinate wounds, or weak and dishearten’d from typhoid fever, [...] by Harriet Staff

Shout Out: Eileen Tabios, Poet-Editor Issue at Otoliths April 30, 2010: I've previously featured a number of independent publishers answering my questions: Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the existing presses? A quick rundown of who responded: Post #1: Eileen Tabios of Meritage Press, Francisco Aragón of Momotombo Press, Reb [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

Shout Out: Urayoán Noel and Pierre Joris, Barzakh April 29, 2010: [caption id="attachment_12561" align="alignnone" width="220" caption="Collage by Alice Notley"][/caption] Who really believes that the abundance and proliferation, the birth of so many new literary journals can be a bad thing? I don't. The more venues for diverse poetries, the better off we all are. One such new journal is Barzakh, a [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

Asian Pacific American Lit Pubs April 18, 2010: I am trying to remember when the Asian Pacific American Journal stopped printing; it's been a few years now. So APAJ ceased publication, and then Kearny Street Workshop, who for years were one of very few independent publishers dedicated to Asian American writing, ceased the publication arm of their programming. This sounded quite dire to me, the [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes