On Knowing: Quasi-intelligibility, or Good-bye National Poetry Month! May 3, 2013: In On Photography, Susan Sontag discusses Walter Benjamin’s ideal work of literary criticism. According to Sontag, for Benjamin, the ideal work of literary of criticism would be made up of nothing but quotes. Sontag writes: “Benjamin’s own ideal project reads like a sublimated version of the photographer’s activity. This project was a [...] by Roger Reeves

Canarium Is on the Move! March 14, 2013: The latest editions from Canarium Books have recently dropped. And we're thrilled to see some authors old and new back in the saddle or making their way onto their list. While many poets get their first books out there and struggle to place their sophomore collections, Canarium is doing their authors a solid by publishing their second [...] by Harriet Staff

Review of Anthony Madrid’s I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say July 16, 2012: Over at The Rumpus, Virginia Konchan reviews Anthony Madrid's I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say, out on Canarium Books. She begins: Let us consider a poetic tradition in which the legacy of Sufi poetry—specifically Urdu poetry, poetry inspired by the Qur’an and Persian poets Sadi and Hafez—has been thoroughly absorbed. A [...] by Harriet Staff

“Bad is not the Devil”: Anthony Madrid at Best American Poetry May 15, 2012: We're super into Anthony Madrid blogging over at Best American Poetry. He asks, today, after quoting a bit from "Leda and the Swan," what it was that prompted Yeats toward the line of questioning expressed in the line "Did she put on his knowledge with his power". Writes Madrid: "That question is strictly out of Yeats’s head. There is no [...] by Harriet Staff

Interview with Anthony Madrid February 16, 2012: Michael Robbins, as guest blogger for the week, is interviewing his ass off over at the Best American Poetry blog. Yesterday he interviewed Anthony Madrid. Here's a sample: MR: Talk about this Mardud persona—he seems almost novelistic, a little man in a cave drinking cheap Rioja. His voice is remarkably consistent across the poems. He [...] by Harriet Staff