Ninjas now the best hope for New York’s subway literature January 27, 2011: In the midst of all the various debates on how to reach the public with poetry, the sticker graffiti community has been unusually quiet, preferring to leave forays into literature to the academics. Until now. The bloggers at The Kensington Prospect have uncovered the work of what they've termed, somewhat incorrectly, "the ninja poet." This [...] by Harriet Staff

Shadow Boxers April 12, 2010: When I read Daisy Fried’s nerdy poet category, I thought of poets who are garrulous, who write conversational poems that careen off in one direction, then veer to investigate a side conversation, which leads to other conversations, and so on. This tendency to digress might not hold a reader’s attention if something doesn’t stay constant. [...] by Emily Warn

CA Conrad’s and Frank Sherlock’s The City Real and Imagined February 5, 2010: Sunday of this past weekend saw the official New York City launch of CA Conrad’s and Frank Sherlock’s collaborative book-length poem The City Real and Imagined, published by Heretical Texts, at the Zinc Bar reading series hosted by Dorothea Lasky. Among a crowd of friends and admirers the two poets read their book in its entirety, calling [...] by Thom Donovan