May 2008
New poems by Spencer Reece, Jane Hirshfield, Seth Abramson, Liz Waldner, Sandra M. Gilbert, Cathy Park Hong, and others; notebook by Eavan Boland; exchange between Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan; reviews by Carmine Starnino, A.E. Stallings, and more!
FEATURED POET
Provincetown Fourth
BY SETH ABRAMSON
... and we are never
so close to the joys of oil, the grease inside
which a fat
becomes a fit, as we bellow magnanimously praise
on the least well of those who pass, ones
who are dying
American Perspectives:
Edward Hirsch
Thursday, May 15
6:00 PM
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by Jordan Davis
Swiss-born artist Rudy Burckhardt put poets on film and made photos work like sonnets.
Tony Soprano, meet John Donne.
Feeling uninspired? Time to hit those science textbooks.
"I / clean my urine / on the flag / of my country": Mexico fines poet.
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OTHER FEATURES
Curious Specimens: An Exchange
by Cate Marvin & Joshua Mehigan
"Potently presented"! Abnormally clumsy"! Our critics debate the merits of two new books.
from Poetry magazine
by Cate Marvin & Joshua Mehigan
"Potently presented"! Abnormally clumsy"! Our critics debate the merits of two new books.
from Poetry magazine
Structure Is Structure
Lydia Davis interviewed by Jason McBride
Fiction writer and Proust translator Lydia Davis takes on a Catalan carol.
Lydia Davis interviewed by Jason McBride
Fiction writer and Proust translator Lydia Davis takes on a Catalan carol.
“Every Tool Became a Weapon”
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA INTERVIEWED BY TOD MARSHALL
Talking with Yusef Komunyakaa about race and war.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA INTERVIEWED BY TOD MARSHALL
Talking with Yusef Komunyakaa about race and war.
POETRY OFF THE SHELF
Abusing Animals in the Name of PoetryKay Ryan asks, "Who would be a turtle?" Listen >>
POETRY MAGAZINE PODCAST
Wild Bard—or Professional?
What kinds of skills are poets supposed to have? Plus Jane Hirshfield, Chris Dombrowski, and more.
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POEMTALK
Hold Your Breath and Gag: A Discussion of Jaap Blonk's "What the President Will Say and Do"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Kenneth Goldsmith, Tracie Morris, and Joshua Schuster
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“In Robert Altman’s seminal film, Nashville, a third-party candidate named Hal Philip Walker is running for president on a ticket known as The Replacement Party. ‘I’m for doing some replacing,’ he says of the bureaucracy in Washington.”—D.A. Powell
For the Fridge
Kay Ryan
"Repetition"
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CartoonBy Jim Behrle
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