The Moment of Change Is the Only Poem

On March 27, we lost poet, seminal essayist, and activist Adrienne Rich. The loss resonates all the more in the months when women’s rights are once more (and when… More

Occupied

Here’s an amazing recording of poet Sandra Doller reading her poem “Memory of Prose Machine” at Drunken Boat. The recordings are full of ambient sounds so it’s like Doller… More

A Different Way of Knowing

This is a rad interview between Matthew Zapruder and Dean Rader over at SFGate. It’s pretty amazing to hear both poets talk about how there poems come together. More

Expressive ‘I’s

I mentioned Micah Ballard’s new book, Waifs and Strays (City Lights Spotlight, 2011) last roundup. If you have not picked up a copy yet, there’s an interview over at… More

Disparate Constellations

I look forward to every episode of No Slander, a podcast by poets Greg Purcell and Ish Klein. It’s sort of like Car Talk with Click and Clack on… More

The Great Dismal

Hopefully you made it to the first ever New York Poetry Festival, but in case you missed it, there’s a run-down of the weekend-long event at the Rumpus. More

Beauty Was the Case

The brand new Summer issue of the poetry/art publication Sixth Finchis up. Editor Rob MacDonald feeds your brain. More