Evie Shockley on the Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry June 7, 2013: Evie Shockley contributed this fantastic analysis of the Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, published in 2011, edited by Rita Dove, to the Boston Review. Mostly, Shockley spends a stupendously thorough amount of time in her write-up dissecting Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler's responses to this anthology and laying out [...] by Harriet Staff

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

Deterritorializations: Repetition, Stutter, Report (the first of two brief forays) May 1, 2013: [caption id="attachment_66003" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Errorist International[/caption] The book is liquid dreams. Writing is stone. Writing is breath unheld. The book is air and underground passages. Where there is no water, but light is liquid. Where warm bodies gather. In translation what there is to say vibrates (vacillates? [...] by Jen Hofer

On The Seawall’s Semi-Annual Poetry Feature November 27, 2012: Over at Ron Slate's On The Seawall, the new season of the semi-annual poetry feature is up, in which 18 poets review new collections of poetry. It's a good group. Here is a sample from Evie Shockley's review of C.M. Burroughs's The Vital System: Burroughs’ first volume of poetry is a sustained and involving exploration of three of the [...] by Harriet Staff

Evie Shockley awarded Holmes National Poetry Prize June 25, 2012: The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University has selected Evie Shockley as this year's recipient of the Holmes National Poetry Prize. About the prize: The Holmes National Poetry Prize was established in memory of Princeton 1951 alumnus Theodore H. Holmes and is presented each year to a poet of [...] by Harriet Staff

13 bloggers cover 61 years of 57 National Book Award poets in 10 weeks January 11, 2011: For ten weeks beginning in February, The National Book Foundation will host a celebration of 61 years of National Book Awards poetry winners. Taking place both on their website and in panels and events in New York, Minneapolis, and Portland, Oregon, the series will result in an NEA-funded digital literary archive featuring images of the [...] by Harriet Staff

Trigger Cuts January 5, 2010: The on-going review-interviews taking place over at Lemon Hound have my attention at the moment (I’m one of the interviewees, an admission that I suppose qualifies as full disclosure here if you believe such a thing exists in the demi-world of warm soft fact), and I’m particularly interested in the question of what one might be looking for in [...] by Anselm Berrigan

Evie Shockley, ‘a half-red sea’ (Carolina Wren Press, 2006) August 20, 2009: [Hello all, I realize this book review is about three years too late, but better now than never!] Evie Shockley’s got a brave and firm grip on history; her first full-length collection of poems, a half-red sea, Harryette Mullen describes as “navigating against prevailing currents.” Indeed, Shockley skillfully navigates, pointedly [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes