Sandra Simonds at Radio Free Albion December 26, 2012: Newly up on Radio Free Albion is this interview with poet Sandra Simonds. Set down your brimming glass of 'nog and have a listen! by Harriet Staff

Sandra Simonds on the Sonnet as Fascist Form? December 7, 2012: Sandra Simonds looks at the sonnet as a potentially fascist form for Best American Poetry. "Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet 'a Fascist form.' Can someone tell me if this is true?" Just in time for the new Telephone Books English-to-English Shakespeare sonnet translations! (Though excited about Kasey Mohammad's [...] by Harriet Staff

Constantly Bathing in the Semantic Folds of the New Lana Turner Content November 21, 2012: Issue #5 of the always-revelatory Lana Turner is out, and contains among its gemlike wonders some poetry from Catherine Wagner (also featured maintenant at PEN, but we digress), Claudia Rankine, Sandra Simonds, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Jackqueline Frost, Joe Luna, Jorie Graham, Douglas Piccinnini, Cole Swensen, and Daniel Tiffany; and plentiful [...] by Harriet Staff

Danny’s Doubles Down in November November 9, 2012: For all you Danny's regulars, you'll be happy to know that the No Slander monthly series is doubling down in November (and for non-regulars, here's your chance to get in on the action!). Two, count 'em, two readings in November! Next week, Wednesday the 17th, check out Sandra Simonds, Betsy Wheeler, and Hannah Gamble. Then, November 28th: "The [...] by Harriet Staff

A Must-Read Post for Women Poets—And Everyone Else August 15, 2012: Over at Best American Poetry, some of our favorite poets--Sandra Simonds, Sina Queyras, Elisa Gabbert, Shanna Compton, Juliana Spahr, Vanessa Place and Danielle Pafunda--had a great discussion about being a woman in the literary world and its accompanying blogosphere. While it's frustrating that certain poets are invited on to panels just to [...] 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

Making room for poor mothers at the poetry table February 21, 2011: Sandra Simonds has struck a nerve with her blog post on Poor Poetry Mothers. The visibility of poetry mothers on the scene and on campus is so poor that it requires Simonds to set out a few facts before continuing: a) the cost of daycare, b) the pay rate for adjuncts. I have been thinking about mothers who are poets who live in poverty or close [...] by Harriet Staff