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After reading the numerous responses to Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's "Numbers Trouble," Jennifer Ashton's response, and our note, it became clear that we needed to make these articles available...

Emily Warn asked me to re-post my entry on the Chicago Review articles by Young/Spahr and Ashton so it can appear alongside hers and Alicia's. I just want to add...

View image View image We'd been hearing for a month or so about a forthcoming article in the Chicago Review called “Numbers Trouble,” an essay written by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young...

I’m eavesdropping; my hand cupped around my ear to better hear the conversation at the next table--a poetry clan is debating an article that has riled them—and it’s by one...

----------------- “I was thinking as you entered the room just now how slyly your requirements are manifested. Here we find ourselves, nose to nose as it were, considering things in spectacular...

I know very little about the status of women in innovative poetry (though I’d agree with Stevens that “all poetry is experimental poetry” I recognize that some poetry is more...

"About twenty minutes after sending my e-mail of acceptance I paused to triumphantly sharpen my claws on the bookcase when I noticed the blazing, neon writing on the wall. It...

I’m celebrating the Days of the Dead on the border, the place that knows about the communion and collision of contrasting worlds—México/USA, Spanish/English, South/North, Vírgen de Guadalupe/Uncle Sam. This festive...

The first day of a new month is like the beginning of a new poem: that tantalizing musical phrase, maybe just a few words, that arouses the mind to fresh...

No earthshaking thoughts this morning about poetry and poetics-- alas, I must focus on my upcoming trip to Los Angeles, only the second time ever I've been to that city--...