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I worked as non-fiction editor and columnist at Andrew Saavedra’s first magazine, Noble / Gas Qtrly. It shuttered in 2019, …
I worked as non-fiction editor and columnist at Andrew Saavedra’s first magazine, Noble / Gas Qtrly. It shuttered in 2019, …
In his “A Sense of Measure,” Robert Creeley discusses what one’s ‘given to write’: ‘No merely intellectual program can find …
‘[. . .] in whose crook’—that is, stolen moment—’I once discovered the most complete of all moments’—that italicized phrase, like the …
This Kamden Hilliard’s “A Clutch of Tony” reads terribly wrong: all that iffy spacing and whipped-round apostrophes, misspellings + elisions, …
datableedzine is publishing important work, & upon very first read became a glossy of weight. In their fourth issue, Linda Russo’s …
In choosing Gene Wolfe’s Castle of Days, I think: Anybody else touches it, I’ll eat them. (I’d go hungry if it …
Invited to Cole’s house for a poetry reading. Claimed a beer—I came empty-handed; moved a table, spoke with Rose Marie …
Poodle mouth; a face-without-neck. Rotating before exploding. If Gilbert and George were melted down, if they had long-standing careers on …
In a state of near-misery, I return to reading I did this summer: Dorothea Schmidt Wender’s ’73 translation of Hesiod …
I’ve had eye on the three-poem shortbook form that defines PYRAMID Editions. Editor Owen Vince seems to desire a one-sitting …
Jess Feldman picked an intriguing conceit to govern a series of very contemporary poems: ‘translate’ the Voynich manuscript, a 15th-century …
Not since reviewing Saavedra’s “From the Temple Priapus” have I been tossed into such lavish feeling: these five sections from …
Up recently at Buzzfeed, Limón’s 2015 poem is exemplar of one of contemporary talk-poetry’s favorite modes: shallow identity verse. In …
Kilbane’s poem, up recently at DIAGRAM, recalls one of poetry’s primary joys: memory and place enlivened by language’s occupation. Here it is, that …
This short lyric, up recently at Painted Bride Quarterly, is notable for an unassuming approach that avails a very ready perspicacity. I’ll admit, …
The plea at the heart of every act of criticism is a plea for better, less disposable poetry. The more …
“Die Kranken,” published in Noble / Gas Qtrly‘s 202.3, is a triumph of hard enjambment and worthy vocabulary. These elements combine …
G.C. Waldrep was no one to me before I read his prose poem, and a venal incarnation of my simultaneous …
[The PACK’s impressed by the quality of Sundress Publications’ selections for ‘Best of the Net’ 2014. Over the next few …
William Brewer’s taut poem of uneasy homecoming begins, like Joyce’s Ulysses, with a razor. Joyce does it thus: Stately, plump …