Harriet

At the New Statesman, Eimear McBride discusses the challenges that Osip Mandelstam faced as a poet in Soviet Russia. Perhaps most telling is this segment of McBride's article, "By the...

This morning I came across a passage in an essay (Frederick Ahl’s “Ars Est Cameleer Artem,” in On Puns, edited by Jonathan Culler) which describes a scene in Cicero’s On...

Photo by Guo Feng John High—poet and prose stylist—writes because he feels driven to do so. American and foreign landscapes and voices populate his poems. A contemporary visionary, it is...

So, we're still at the Comet, perhaps thinking through an atmosphere that I described before, a dazzling sky of unknowable pleasures & speeds, losing control while also piloting wild dirigibles...

Many thanks to Ron Silliman for posting this wonderful video of an interview with Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's widow and author of the two incredibly fascinating memoirs Hope...

From The Guardian: Jen Hadfield was named the winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize 2012 in an award ceremony at Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday. Her poem, The...