Harriet

I looked through my past poems in the morning and discovered I’d been writing the always somehow peripheral sonnet all along without understanding the forms of brief conclusive thought the...

1 Last November, on election day, on a flight from New York to Chicago, I reread William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All.  I planned to assign it for a graduate poetics...

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...

John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, 1965. Photo by Pierre Martory, courtesy of the estate of Lee Harwood. Over the past few months I’ve been going to the British Library to look...

On its website, The Bagley Wright Lecture Series has posted a great interview with Hoa Nguyen which took place just after her lecture on the practice of teaching creative writing...

Dear Poetry: Advice on Hots for Married Men, and Making Friends and Writing Poems Without a Car I think my friend has the hots for me, but he’s married and...

Don't mind if we write up a write-up, do you? At Locus Solus, a look at Nick Sturm's recent Fanzine essay on Ted Berrigan's art writings: "For months, Sturm has...

6. Demo To Ink- Ron Silliman Chax Press Laura Moriarty was definitely there, we were standing in a group on the field at Woodside Elementary in Concord. Brandon Brown was probably there,...

Last Friday afternoon in San Francisco I left our place on Ellis walking north up Larkin and took a right on Broadway east through the tunnel to City Lights Books...