Artists & Poets—Join Us This Saturday! May 9, 2013: On Saturday, May 11 Poetry will sponsor the Poetry Foundation's first-ever symposium on poets and artists. Poets Bill Berkson and John Yau will be joined by artists Lesley Dill and Mildred Howard to talk about the intersections between visual art and poetry. The symposium will end with an announcement of a new collaboration between poet [...] by Lindsay Garbutt

Joan Mitchell: An Installation February 8, 2013: [caption id="attachment_60686" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Joan Mitchell, August 1935.[/caption] How does one install a quadriptych painting that is eight and a half feet tall and twenty feet wide? Very carefully! This week we welcome the Poetry Foundation's newest exhibition, Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry. Joan Mitchell’s mother [...] by Lindsay Garbutt

It’s the Last List, We Promise—But John Yau and Albert Mobilio Have Really Great Taste January 8, 2013: Perhaps you've had your fill of year-end best-of lists, but this one from Hyperallergic brains John Yau and Albert Mobilio is too good to let slip through the 2012 back door. Featuring poetry faves Joyelle McSweeney, Matvei Yankelevich, John Ashbery, Eileen Myles, Cathy Park Hong, Kevin Young, and more of that good thinking--as well as a fond [...] by Harriet Staff

From Translating Mo’um to Engine Empire: John Yau on the Work of Cathy Park Hong December 4, 2012: The recent poetic output of Cathy Park Hong received an expansive review from John Yau over at Hyperallergic--check it out! In Part One, Yau looks at her first book, Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose Press, 2002), where Hong "has focused on developing different imaginary lingua franca (or bridge languages) that make communication possible [...] by Harriet Staff

John Yau Pays Necessary Attention to Poet and Filmmaker Frank Kuenstler (1928-1996) August 7, 2012: For Hyperallergic, John Yau has written a necessary piece about the much-neglected poet and filmmaker Frank Kuenstler, who died in 1996 and was the author of nine books. Yau looks at each one, if he can ("I do not own, nor have ever seen, copies of Continued and Miscellany, which have proven impossible to find, even on the Internet. It is [...] by Harriet Staff

John Yau and the Artist’s Life June 7, 2011: In their fifth episode of "The Artist's Life," NYFA spends some time with poet John Yau, author of over a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and critcism; and Arts Editor of The Brooklyn Rail. Yau's next book of poems, My Latest Adventures in Monochrome, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in the spring of 2012. NYFA also got to meet a [...] by Harriet Staff

New Blank Document December 7, 2009: I remember being lazy and stupid and nonetheless curious. I remember the Optionists, the Actualists, the Pre-Born Bag of Chipists, the Expos, and the Typing Wild Speechists. I remember white roaches, making myself puke, digging through trash for empty cartons to fill with hydrant sprinkler water, letting myself be bit by a toothless dog at age [...] by Anselm Berrigan