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Wed, 15 May 2013 15:04:28 -0400

by Taylor Mead

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:37:37 -0400

by Taylor Mead

Covers: Hannah Weiner by Eric S. Lunde

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:01 -0400

Covers: Hannah Weiner by Eric S. Lunde

CAConrad with Momma Divine.

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:48 -0400

CAConrad with Momma Divine.

Gertrude Stein by Andy WarholGertrude Stein by Francis...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:44:11 -0400

Gertrude Stein by Andy Warhol
Gertrude Stein by Francis Picabia

from 2001 by Blaise Larmee

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:34:46 -0400

from 2001 by Blaise Larmee

vanessaplaceinc: Join us...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:50:36 -0400

vanessaplaceinc:

Join us for our 5.3.2013 launch.

Hg - The Liquid, by Ward Tietz

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:59:00 -0400

Hg - The Liquid, by Ward Tietz

Do you like Indie Lit? Do you like summer? Who’s your...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:15:01 -0400

Do you like Indie Lit? Do you like summer? Who’s your crush?

These are all pertinent questions.

Not sure what to read at the beach this summer? We’re...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:03:00 -0400

Not sure what to read at the beach this summer? We’re pretty sure you would like one of these:

The Collected Poems
by Ai
Bringing together thirty years of poetry across eight books, this first complete edition of Ai’s work reveals her mastery of the dramatic monologue.

Quick Question
by John Ashbery
Despite his nerves and his remembrances, Ashbery’s rollicks show that he’s still one of our youngest poets at heart.

red doc >
by Anne Carson
This book finds Carson once again blurring the lines of prose and poetry, and challenging both genres within a single poem.

88 Sonnets
by Clark Coolidge
This welcoming embrace of the mind’s ghosts and dalliances amounts to a remarkable intimacy in Coolidge’s latest collection.

Senegal Taxi
by Juan Felipe Herrera
Herrera takes on Sudanese injustice in this latest collection of monologues, transcripts, and prose poems, telling the story of three children as they try to escape a ravaged village.
Lake Superior
by Lorine Niedecker
Written in the spare style that typifies her work, Niedecker’s poem was the distilled product of a road trip she took with her husband Al Millen in 1966.

Partially Kept
by Martha Ronk
Throughout her ninth collection, Ronk calls upon language to reconcile the space in which the body ends and nature begins.

Sorry Was in the Woods
by Michelle Taransky
Unlike Frost, who stopped himself from entering the woods out of fear, Taransky’s latest sends her headlong into darkness and deepness.

Meme
by Susan Wheeler
Much like memes themselves, which operate by means of refrain and repetition, each of these poems begins with a stock phrase that will ring familiar to most who grew up in America in the last fifty years.

Fall Higher
by Dean Young
Like Whitman, Young is a wandering poet whose tongue refuses nothing in its desire to taste the multitudes.

I closed the book and changed my life and changed my life and...

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:39:12 -0400

I closed the book and changed my life and changed my life and changed my life and one more change and I was back here looking up at a blue sky with russets and the World was hypnotic but it wasn’t great. I wanted more range, maybe, more bliss, I didn’t know about bliss. Is bliss just a rant about the size of the bowl? The trance was the true thing, no, the rant, no, the sky, now, that icy whiteness.

—Bruce Smith

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Stand-out Poem in Your Pocket Day participants —<3

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:23:00 -0400

Stand-out Poem in Your Pocket Day participants —<3

<3 Tauba Auerbach.

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:25:00 -0400

<3 Tauba Auerbach.

pith: Tuesday night’s Poetry Bomb event featuring Paul...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:43:54 -0400

pith:

Tuesday night’s Poetry Bomb event featuring Paul Muldoon, Leigh Stein, Melissa Broder, Cathy Park Hong, Kevin Grijalva and Faith Hahn.

(See the rest of the photos on Flickr)

Good times.

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Fri, 03 May 2013 11:38:13 -0400

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:32:06 -0400

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Check it out

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:27:00 -0400

Check it out:

Our newest issue is now live! Featuring work by

Diana Arterian • A. H. Jerriod Avant • Andy Axel • Julie Babcock • Stephanie Barber

Emileigh Barnes • Lucy Biederman • Dan Brady • Katie Byrum • Caroline Cabrera • Sarah Certa

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theparisreview: Day Jobs of the Poets.

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:43:40 -0400

theparisreview:

Day Jobs of the Poets.

Miniature, by Yannis Ritsos The woman stood up in front of the...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:35:55 -0400

Miniature, by Yannis Ritsos

The woman stood up in front of the table. Her sad hands
begin to cut thin slices of lemon for tea
like yellow wheels for a very small carriage
made for a child’s fairy tale. The young officer sitting opposite
is buried in the old armchair. He doesn’t look at her.
He lights up his cigarette. His hand holding the match trembles,
throwing light on his tender chin and the teacup’s handle. The clock
holds its heartbeat for a moment. Something has been postponed.
The moment has gone. It’s too late now. Let’s drink our tea.
Is it possible, then, for death to come in that kind of carriage?
To pass by and go away? And only this carriage to remain,
with its little yellow wheels of lemon
parked for so many years on a side street with unlit lamps,
and then a small song, a little mist, and then nothing?

(trans. Edmund Keeley)

Poster by Eve Fowler, from Gertrude Stein’s Tender...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:21:02 -0400

Poster by Eve Fowler, from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons.