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Certainly couldn't afford to, but this past week I decided to reread the poetry books I keep rereading. Trying to think of why I keep coming back to these volumes,...

If you live in or around New York City, you know that it was in chaos yesterday after torrents brought three inches of rain in one hour down on its...

“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.”—Susan Howe Henry VIII bequeathed to his royal children a love of seeing bulls and bears “baited,” that is, penned up in...

August Wilson’s monumental project, the Century Cycle of plays is soon to be released as a single publication—a beautifully (it seems to me) packaged production of all ten of the...

The inevitability of Barry Bonds serves notice to all poets invested in the Humanist tradition: your tenure is doomed. Barry Bonds is not only the future of athletics, but he's...

....that approximately 13 seconds after Charles Simic was named poet laureate, I went alookin' for him on YouTube. And I discovered that he is the only person with a heartbeat...

Speaking of John Wieners and then dressing rooms—there is a nine-page interlude in A Book of Prophecies inventorying a phantasmagorical fashion catalog: 7. Bill Blass beret out of the Sorbonne sewer gray shirt...

Close Radio (1976-79) - MP3s & Audio Stream 111 audio works recorded for KPFK by visual and performance artists between 1976 and 1979. Includes rarities and never-before heard cuts from mostly...

I I don't know when this video was filmed, although it looks to be about 10 years ago. What I do know: this is Marc Smith, inventor of the...

I try not to think about dying much. Whenever I do, naive as it may be, I dismiss it as something that happens to other people, usually in very spectacular ways....