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At Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here, poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples pays homage to poet and City Lights author, David Meltzer. Meltzer, who passed away last...

The Third Rail's Issue 9 is now in print, and online. An "editorially independent affiliate of The Brooklyn Rail" based in Minneapolis, previous issues have included audio from Paul Legault,...

About a year ago I ran into an elder poet of renown while riding the F train. I don’t remember the conversation well enough to know how we started talking...

Emily Litvak writes about "the guy with the dreams," also known as Mathias Svalina, for U. of Arizona's Poetry Center blog. Svalina was in Tucson on a leg of his...

At Jacket2, Cy Mathews reconsiders New Zealand visual poet Joanna Margaret Paul (1945–2003) and her diverse oeuvre. Although her book of poems, Imogen (1978), won the Pen Best First Book...

L’oeil de Baudelaire, "Baudelaire's Eye," a new exhibition at Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris, bolsters Charles Baudelaire's reputation as a sophisticated polymath. Nonchalance aside, the French poet who...

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Thorpe Moeckel's Arcadia Road (Etruscan Press, 2015), a trilogy of long poems that Dunagan calls a "celebration of DIY homesteading." "This triadic long poem unfurls in...

Sumita Chakraborty explores the work of Alice Oswald in a five-part essay for Los Angeles Review of Books. Oswald's most recent book is Falling Awake (Norton, 2016), and much of...

Elizabeth Acevedo, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths (YesYes Books) Sara Deniz Akant, Babette (Rescue Press) Kaveh Akbar, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC) Elizabeth Arnold, Skeleton Coast (Flood Editions) Aziza Barnes,...

For the Los Angeles Times, Carol Muske-Dukes reads two new books of poetry, each confronting human mortality in very different ways. Daniel Borzutzky's The Performance of Becoming Human "is an...