Davis Dozen Rejects Plea Deal, Sets New Court Date for June 1 May 11, 2012: An update on Joshua Clover and the Davis/Banker's Dozen: Rejecting a plea deal for 80 hours of community service, calling the charges against them "a sham," the group entered their not-guilty pleas yesterday in Yolo County Superior Court and now have a new court date set for June 1 at 8:30 a.m., with the legal assistance of San Francisco [...] by Harriet Staff

Poetry, Politics, and Letters to the Empire April 30, 2012: It's always exciting to me when poets actively engage in politics. I respect poets who are finding new and creative ways to address politics in their poetry (symbolic engagement); and I honor poets who sacrifice their writing time to work within their respective communities or within political institutions (activist engagement), even if their [...] by Craig Santos Perez

Our Occupations (after the Occupations): Jeanine Webb April 30, 2012: Jeanine Webb is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. Previous respondents include Stephen Collis and Steve Benson; Richard Owens and Brian Whitener; Brian Ang and Ana Božičević; David Buuck; Suzanne Stein and Anna Vitale; Dan Thomas [...] by Thom Donovan

National Poetry Month and May Day 2012 April 30, 2012: On Saturday, I was again in the 9th floor offices of Domestic Workers United talking about poetry, about the function of politics in the creative writing workshop, about the 99%, about artists’ rights to their creative work, about documentary film, about the use of juxtaposition in couplets and stanzas, & about “show flow” for our [...] by Mark Nowak

Our Occupations (after the Occupations): Jennifer Scappettone April 30, 2012: [caption id="attachment_45471" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Courtesy Rachel Levitsky"][/caption] Jennifer Scappettone is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. Previous respondents include Stephen Collis and Steve Benson; Richard [...] by Thom Donovan

Our Occupations (after the Occupations): Lara Durback April 30, 2012: [caption id="attachment_45370" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Courtesy Kate Robinson"][/caption] Lara Durback  is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. Previous respondents include Stephen Collis and Steve Benson; Richard Owens and [...] by Thom Donovan

it’s not easy being news April 30, 2012: So I had all this material, or so I thought, saved up for my penultimate post—it was going to be about Marisa Crawford's amazing, scary, sexy book The Haunted House, which I fell hard for last week, and also about the way teen life takes over adulthood, and about how the book came in several senses just too late for me, and about how I am [...] by Stephen Burt

Make Love, then War April 27, 2012: In these days of a dying, raving and hallucinating empire, its best known poet, and a master at being anti-war, is accepting a Presidential Freedom Award from a cynical if affable, still, to many people, master of war. What is Dylan thinking? He and Obama are no strangers. On February 9, 2010, Dylan performed "The Times They Are A-Changing" at the [...] by Linh Dinh

Avant Mariachis Occupy The Page April 26, 2012: What do I say to the Norwegians (my hosts) this coming week? They want to know about American poetics (specifically of the Avant Garde variety) as it relates to “Occupy.” I didn’t quite promise them an in-depth critical-aesthetic genealogy of it, but I also haven’t as yet opted for a Green & Silver Mariachi approach to cultural [...] by Rodrigo Toscano

A Conversation with Brooks Johnson April 26, 2012: [Editor's Note: The following is presented unedited. The opinions expressed in this interview belong to those involved in the conversation and do not reflect the views of the Poetry Foundation. Factual inaccuracies have been corrected in brackets.]   First off, I want to provide some background: In September of last year, the Croatoan [...] by Linh Dinh