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—for Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Christopher Soto While teaching a course on Wallace Stevens at the University of Chicago, poet Mark Strand told me and a group of students...

Today is April 20th, the unofficial holiday of cannabis enthusiasts. Celebrate the giggles and munchies while flipping through some of these poetry books while you toke.   1. Fantasy — Ben Fama   I think I would...

From the cover of Adilifu Nama’s Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the...

On a facebook thread not too long ago I told V Manuscript that I would like for him to come to the Bay Area and deliver a large volume of...

Collaboration is an ideal hands-on way for two or more poets and/or artists to get to know each other's imaginations from the most intimate level on up. My earliest experience...

"To feed” is the most basic verb, the most fundamental, the most rooted. It expresses the primordial activity, the primary, basic function, the act “I” engage in even before I...

McNally Jackson is hosting the launch of The Animated Reader tonight, and you should come out. Contributors Mónica de la Torre, Cory Tamler, Wayne Koestenbaum and Yan Jun will be reading,...

In This Connection of Everyone With Lungs, Juliana Spahr’s “Poem Written from November 30, 2002 to March 27, 2003” opens with a litany of thoughts upon waking in the morning...

I arrived in San Francisco for graduate school during the rise and fall of the late 90s dot-com dustup. It wasn't any big thing to me. I made my way...