Primal Mysteries
/In his latest collection, The Wrecking Light, Robin Robertson blends the voices of generations of Scottish/Celtic bards and balladeers into his own unique style of poetry.
Read MoreBook Review: As We Are Sung
/There is nothing conventional about Christina Mengert's new book of poetry, nor can it be read the same way twice.
Read MoreTaxonomy and Grace
/Have bickering bloggers and academic jargon so infected the poetry world that readers can no longer read a poem, or speak of one, as what it is?
Read MoreElemental Edge
/Shin Yu Pai engages with history, tradition, and the world around her in her new collection of poems.
Read MoreThe Sad Flaneuse
/The slim body of work of the late New York poet Rachel Wetzsteon skips the faux-Horatian filigree in favor of an unsentimental depiction of modern life and contradictory emotion. And yet, her poems are both outspoken and intimate, and Manhattan is her Rome. Horace might have been flattered after all.
Read MoreAbout Poems
/"The family got the majority of their ideas about families from black and white films. They tried to replicate every important detail exactly"
Read MoreSequins are not stars
/Kept between us, I enter my name /into the raffle /for a new one and a car to drive it around in.
Read MoreWhat is he doing?
/"A Glyn Maxwell poem encourages us towards an emotion or a point of view not by stating it, often not even by showing it, but by bringing us in stages to cooperate in doing the work of recreating it."
Read MoreEdwin S. Porter’s Execution of Czolgosz (1901)
/prussian blue, grog-blossom /brown, but the prison matron’s white /picture-hat withered /the angels to specular. Even now /
Read Morefrom Party in My Body
/"Why does the age demand nothing? Am I transcendent or drunk?" :: An excerpt from the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to the Prose Poem
Read MoreWonders of the Field
/A conversation with the editors of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to the Prose Poem
Read MoreEVEN AS WE SPEAK
/THERE IS A BEGINNING TO ALL THIS. AN OCCASION. SCOTTISH BAGPIPES ARE ITS EQUIVALENT, BUT IT BEAMS DOWN IN SPECKLED LIGHTS. SPOKEN LIGHTS.
Read MoreSongs for an Invisible Nation
/Rapt in discussion and a bowl of spicy noodles with poet Martín Espada
Read MoreBeyond the Pillars of Hercules
/In addition to their gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks worshiped youth and athletic prowess, and their foremost bard was Pindar.
Read MoreAxes Piling Up
/Open Letters talks with Adam Golaski about the earlier translations of Sir Gawain, the original MS, and his own "Green"
Read MoreGreen : first fitt
/The entire first fitt from Adam Golaski's groundbreaking new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read MoreA Cloud of Voices
/A conversation and twenty cigarettes with émigré poet and Fulcrum editor Katia Kapovich
Read MoreLost, Well-Lost
/In his study of the poetry and life of dissolute writer Alexander Trocchi, our intrepid corespondent follows him into the dark corners he described, and consorts with smoky ghosts.
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