March 23, 2016
UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION #1
Who turned Robert Creeley into Robert Frost? And how? And why? I know, that's three uncomfortable questions. But uncomfortable questions are like…
March 18, 2016
AMIRI BARAKA – the field was real life not just a poetic allusion
“But all were urging a clarity to me about what there was of value in the N[ew] A[merican] P[oetry] that ironically finally made me look…
March 12, 2016
All Literature by Laura Riding Jackson
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to…
March 12, 2016
The Law of Poetic Composition, by Diane di Prima
DiPrima - The Law of Poetic Composition
March 10, 2016
“Reading Time by Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)”
Muriel Rukeyser was a lifelong social activist, fully committed to the struggle against inequity and oppression and for social justice. Her writing…
February 29, 2016
MARINETTI, ACADEMICIAN by Álvaro de Campos
On March 29, 1929, Filippo Marinetti, one of the baddest of all avant-garde bad boys, was nominated to the Royal Academy of Italy by Mussolini, in…
February 23, 2016
Statement of the Croatoan Poetic Cell on the Poetry Foundation and the cops, with a letter from Jeremy Prynne
A conversation between Linh Dinh and Brooks Johnson Linh Dinh: First off, I want to provide some background: In September of last year (2011), the…
February 21, 2016
Jack Spicer to Foot 2, 1962
I am not submitting the poetry I promised to the magazine. One of the three editors of your magazine [Philip Whalen] is participating in the…
February 21, 2016
John Clarke to Tom Clark, 28 June 1991
John (Jack) Clarke carried out an extensive correspondence with Tom Clark while Clark was writing Charles Olson: The allegory of a poet’s life.…
June 11, 2015
Benjamin Hollander Responds to CA Conrad, 11 June 2015 [link]
"What most people I agree with politically and whose politics are considered progressive don't even realize is that, when it comes to poetry or…