New Coldfront Chap Nook June 1, 2012: Chap Nook 7 is up over at Coldfront, with reviews of New Year’s Day by Genya Turovskaya, Route by Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina, and The Odyssey by Matthew Zapruder. Go on now, check them out. Chaps reviewed can be purchased here, here, and here. by Harriet Staff

“There was love in the air; we drank from it like hordes of bats.”: An Interview with Mathias Svalina March 6, 2012: Nick Sturm conducted this interview with Mathias Svalina over at Bookslut. Here's how it opens, with Mathias explaining his first encounters with poetry and his beginnings as a writer, a very young writer: Do you remember the first poem you ever wrote? In his analysis of the New York School poets, The Last Avant-Garde, David Lehman [...] by Harriet Staff