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Originally published with Beacon Press in 1995 (with this book cover), Chicana writer and El Paso native Pat Mora’s fourth book of poems was reprinted this fall through the University...

Some other memorable pieces of poetry-criticism, poetry-describing, and poetry-introducing from last week's conference in Long Beach: why Russians usually avoid free verse; what Robert Creeley has to do with English...

What is it? Is it catching, is it common, is it rare? Is it something you have heard, and maybe uttered, unaware? Steve has broached a subject close to my heart—dipodic...

Late last year, Federal agents raided six Swift & Co. meat processing plants in six states in search of illegal immigrants working there. 1,282 people were arrested in Operation...

One of the books I’m reading with my MFA graduate students (holla!) at Rutgers University in Newark is the debut volume by Aracelis Girmay. I reviewed this book, glowingly, when...

It's neat to see someone you know is a very sharp critic give a smart talk (or to see someone whose poems you expect to like read new, good poems),...

Does Dana Gioia matter? Obviously more than we know... An alert Cave Canem alum spotted this in the big man's bio-- "An influential critic as well, Gioia's 1991 book 'Can Poetry Matter?', which...

I go away for a weekend-- to a big literary conference, moreover-- and this place explodes with controversy. About the Chicago Review, statistical analysis, and feminism, right now the only...

I’d like to congratulate las mujeres on this blog for taking a stance on the subject of the representation of women in poetry journals. And I’d like to invite the...

Confession #4,080: I am a podcast junkie. A near-brutal, weekly commute last year forced me to seek alternatives to NPR’s apple-pie programming. Don’t get me wrong: I wish I...