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I first met Arabelle Sicardi through Cassandra Gillig, who was her roommate at the time in New Jersey, although tbh I think we already stalked each others' tumblrs. Cass told...

Instead of going to AWP, I used my vacation days from work to go to Puerto Rico and it was glorious. Instead of going to AWP, I will show up to...

“The techno-linguistic machine is giving language to human beings, and also taking the place of human beings in language for the current generation,” writes Franco Berardi, in his strange, compact...

Because I wanted there to be a book by David Brazil, having read his poems and chapbooks with interest, as well as the magazine Try, edited with Sara Larsen, and...

To kick off National Poetry Month, I reached out to The Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo to ask them who they thought deserved recognition. Here's what they sent: GOLD STARS GOLD STAR FOR...

Today we released the first episode of PoetryNow, a new 5 minute podcast and radio broadcast created in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and WFMT in Chicago, featuring poets reading...

A missing molar. A kiss on a missing molar. A miniature woman in a paper boat. The sea, paper. She requests I set fire to the sheet on which she drifts....

I’ve been in love with a corpse. —Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse When I grow up I want to be an old woman. That's the first thing I thought. I was told: to be...

Hi. Happy Poetry Month. Thanks for reading. My instinct is to try and give you some theme that frames my thoughts about poets and poetry lately. Here are some things I’ve been...

You can teach the young nothing —Charles Olson, "The Distances" Cities located near waterways have always been my preferred locales for living in and loitering around. I like to walk about and...