‘I (yet again) didn’t attend’: The 2013 AWP Conference April 8, 2013: Even though the 2013 AWP (Average White Poets?) Conference was closer to my home than usual / I (yet again) didn’t attend. Some indication as to why might be provided by quotes from a William Golding essay / and a few previous thoughts from my ongoing journal of ideas / This Is Thinking — During this last academic year in America I [...] by Alan Davies

Notes from the Fence Family Brunch, Part 2 (AWP 2013, Boston) March 14, 2013: Earlier this week I posted Notes from the Fence Family Brunch, Part 1, wherein I covered topics such as: Fence managing editor Rob Arnold's possible contribution to statewide gun violence in the pacific northwest, how the first piece of literature I ever inspired told the story of a watermelon filled with human flesh, what author Jacob Wren [...] by Hannah Gamble

Tin House Guide To AWP March 7, 2013: We typically head to AWP with one of two book-buying intentions: to buy nothing or to buy one of everything. If all goes well, we come home with a well-edited stack of publications from presses and poets both new and familiar to us. Over at Tin House, Drew Swenhaugen has created a book-buying guide to AWP to help us stay on track. We have our [...] by Harriet Staff

#Whatshouldwecallpoets or How to Survive the Internet During AWP March 6, 2013: This week, we're all planning to go to AWP, en route to Boston, or recently arrived in Boston. Those of us not going to AWP are driving our poet friends to the airport and enjoying (or not) all of the AWP-related internet hubub. Regardless of whether you're at AWP or not, we recommend taking a brief time out to look at Michelle [...] by Harriet Staff

Two Perspectives on the Whole AWP-MFA-Glut Thing March 1, 2013: Remember the other day when we posted on Seth Oelbaum's explosive piece at HTMLGiant? It's caused something of a perturbance in the blogsphere and spurred poets to do what they do best this time of year: get dirty on AWP. Hey, we're guilty too! To keep the fires well-stoked, make your way over to The Volta where one blogger responds to [...] by Harriet Staff

PoFo Is Hosting a Reception at AWP February 28, 2013: Yes, please join the magazine, website, and Foundation staff for cocktails Thursday night at AWP in Boston. If it's anything like past years, you'll want to get there early. A line tends to form. A long line. In front of the open bar... The deets: Thursday, Mar 7, 7:00PM–8:15PM 2013 AWP Conference & Bookfair Hynes Convention [...] by Harriet Staff

Seth Oelbaum on AWP and ‘The Glut’ February 27, 2013: [caption id="attachment_61987" align="alignright" width="500"] The AWP 2010 Bookfair[/caption] If you need a mid-week dose of energy, head over to HTMLGiant, where Seth Oelbaum takes the AWP conference to task. But be prepared, when we say the post will give you some mid-week energy, we mean that you'll probably find yourself enraged and/or [...] by Harriet Staff

Craig Santos Perez on why white editors are so mean May 13, 2011: Craig Santos Perez recently returned from the Los Angeles Times Book Festival, where he was a speaker on a panel called “The Poet’s Responsibility: Poetic Tradition, Social Values, and Contemporary Culture," and he’s done a stellar job of reporting back about the fest on his Jacket2 blog (there was a Poetry Stage!). Writes Perez, “Los [...] by Harriet Staff

Contemporary Poetry Review teaches you to be a better (less boring) poetry reader March 18, 2011: The editors of Contemporary Poetry Review (who suspiciously resemble Statler and Waldorf) are not beyond admitting that they can still learn a thing or two at AWP. For instance, they can learn that they hate poetry readings. On their blog, they offer five tips/tricks/criticisms/rants based on the lessons they had to learn the hard way—by [...] by Harriet Staff

Pirating the airwaves over AWP February 1, 2011: Inside Higher Ed is hosting Radio Free AWP this week. Wednesday through Sunday, tune into a ridiculous amount of podcasts (between 4-5 a day, it would appear) featuring readings, interviews, contests, and audio book outtakes somehow involving William Gass and ducks. It’s true pirate radio, internet-style, with some of my literary friends and [...] by Harriet Staff