Marjorie Perloff’s Recent Talk on Paul Celan at University of Chicago May 21, 2013: At his Samizdat blog, Robert Archambeau reflects on Marjorie Perloff's recent talk on Paul Celan at the University of Chicago's new Logan Center (and he quite admired it): We tend to see Celan almost exclusively in the context of Holocaust writing, with John Felstiner's Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew as the great explanatory text. [...] by Harriet Staff

Eileen Myles Considers Transparency in an Essay Response to Marjorie Perloff May 8, 2013: More Eileen Myles in the news! You've probably already read this one, as it's been making the rounds. If not, head to the new issue of The Volta, where Eileen Myles responds to Marjorie Perloff on conceptualism with emo in her piece "Painted Clear, Painted Black." It's infinitely quotable, as her prose is wont: Poetry’s where men get [...] by Harriet Staff

Kent Johnson Responds to Marjorie Perloff’s Avant-Garde in Latest Chicago Review March 19, 2013: Kent Johnson has written a note for the new issue of the Chicago Review called "Marjorie Perloff, the 'Avant-garde,' and the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" that is receiving a good amount of buzz, with the editors of The Claudius App noting that their Facebook post about the "parallax corrective" has received a record numbers of [...] by Harriet Staff

Reading List: February 2013 February 27, 2013: [caption id="attachment_62019" align="alignright" width="500"] A young Joan Mitchell reading. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.[/caption] The Reading List is a new feature of the Editors’ Blog this year. Each month we ask Poetry’s recent contributors to share a book—or several—that they’ve been poring over. Here are some [...] 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

Archambeau Sums Up the Perloff Symposium December 7, 2012: We reported on the recent Boston Review symposium responding to Marjorie Perloff's essay "Poets on the Brink." With so many remarkable contributors it's difficult to get an overview of the whole affair. But now we have Bob Archambeau to thank for providing one! At Samizdat Blog, Archambeau writes: Experimental vs. formalist; formalist [...] by Harriet Staff

A Major Marjorie Perloff Offering at Jacket2 November 9, 2012: In case you haven't found your way over to the massive number of fabulous essays celebrating the work of Marjorie Perloff, hesitate no longer and make your way over to Jacket2. From Al Filreis and J. Gordon Faylor's introduction: This feature celebrates the life and work of Marjorie Perloff at almost exactly the moment she receives the [...] by Harriet Staff

Just Up: Marjorie Perloff Responds to Matvei Yankelevich July 16, 2012: Back again to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Marjorie Perloff is quick on the draw, responding to Matvei Yankelevich's open letter to Perloff, "The Gray Area," published just last week. Perloff states right away that she's grateful for Yankelevich's attention to her Boston Review essay, but that he "mistakes [the] essay's intended audience, as [...] by Harriet Staff

Just Published at LARB: An Open Letter from Matvei Yankelevich to Marjorie Perloff July 16, 2012: Very, very interesting and necessary reading at the Los Angeles Review of Books, perhaps of the over-and-over vein. Matvei Yankelevich responds to Marjorie Perloff's recent Boston Review essay, “Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric,” which we remarked upon, as did Sandra Simonds. Cathy Park Hong says on Facebook, "Mash up Jay-Z and [...] by Harriet Staff

Sandra Simonds Responds to Marjorie Perloff’s Boston Review Essay May 16, 2012: On her blog, poet Sandra Simonds responds to Marjorie Perloff's essay, "Poetry on the Brink," recently published in the Boston Review, as we mentioned. The essay claimed that "[t]he national (or even transnational) demand for a certain kind of prize-winning, ‘well-crafted’ poem—a poem that the New Yorker would see fit to print and that would [...] by Harriet Staff