Sampling Silence in Ashbery February 12, 2013: We love it when poetry opens out into other disciplines and art forms. Last spring, the New School hosted a festival called How to Continue: Ashbery Across the Arts. Participants from a variety of disciplines engaged with John Ashbery's work, and all sorts of crazy and exciting things happened. Christian Hawkey chose to examine the collection [...] by Harriet Staff

Kissing Georg Trakl’s Portrait in a Review of Ventrakl September 12, 2012: We've got a soft side, but aren't (yet!) weeping over this review of Christian Hawkey's Ventrakl (UDP 2011). Kelli Anne Noftle found the book in a bag given to her by the woman her ex ended up with (we would have burned it! a bigger woman, etc.) ... Two years ago, my boyfriend fell in love with a woman who gave me a shopping bag of [...] by Harriet Staff

Marjorie Perloff reviews Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl for Los Angeles Review of Books May 17, 2011: Marjorie Perloff reviews Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl (UDP 2010) for the Los Angeles Review of Books, rightly noting that poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was felt by many to be the Austrian answer to Rimbaud, and later considered within the Modernist trajectory as a kind of Deep Image poet (he is also regarded as the preeminent Austrian [...] by Harriet Staff