June 20, 2007
Take Two
All Shook Up. Lots of changes in the world of lit mags these days: Granta, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Georgia Review, McSweeney’s. VQR‘s Ted Genoways is keeping track of […]
June 19, 2007
Familiar Things Made Strange and New
Finally I have the opportunity to write a piece about “the most hated man in American poetry.” When Robert McDowell referred to William Logan this way in the Hudson Review, […]
June 18, 2007
Short Takes
Rushdie’s a knight. Joshua Clover points out just who was on the publicity posters for National Poetry Month this year…and let’s just say this person distributes all his poems equally. […]
June 16, 2007
This Post Will….Knock Your Socks Off!
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Jerry Harp’s last post–especially the first paragraph. I love his sense that the show Seinfeld, ultimately, is all form–and the notion that something […]
June 15, 2007
“The Men Can Now Reveal Themselves”
This post is the work of Seattle writer Nancy Jooyoun Kim, and responds to Perkins-Valdez’s “The Clipping” from the KR summer issue. Perkins-Valdez’s “The Clipping” begins with a textbook image […]
June 13, 2007
Secrets and Lies?
The life of the writer is perhaps the most and least mysterious part of writing. On the one hand, some writers’ lives are open books–over documented, if anything, and the […]
June 13, 2007
Yeats and Vowels
Here’s why Yeats is great: He can make you a better kisser. This is what I told some creative writing students who were writing poems with me last summer, and […]
June 12, 2007
About My Feelings
A musing by Heather Christle. Some of her poems may be found here. –TM People like animals. Younger American Poets like to write about “the animals.” (If you are under […]
June 11, 2007
The Passing of a Promising Show
Because my job involves teaching poetry writing to undergraduates, I’ve considered writing about what poets can learn from Seinfeld. This show that is famously about nothing is a great example […]
June 10, 2007
On Dan Nielsen
This post is the work of writer and editor Sean Casey.–TM Racine, Wisconsin is home to one of our funniest poets: Dan Nielsen. In the 90s, Nielsen edited the mags […]
June 9, 2007
Short Takes
A phenomenon like no other. In case you missed it, there’s a man in Kansas City burning books. This ranks highly on my “Most Disappointing Protests of All Time” list. […]
June 8, 2007
Poems & Particulars
This post is the work of Jessica Johnson, who makes her home in Portland, Oregon, and reads poetry for the Burnside Review. –TM I’m mainly a poet, but lately I’ve […]