I’ve known Stephen Paul Miller for going on forty years now, and the conviviality of his personality has never changed; so it’s always a […]
19 Feb
Etheridge Knight wrote some great poems, up there with the best of them. Like a contemporary of his, Gregory Corso, he was also a […]
13 Feb
Last year I sent out a few Valentines, my poem “In the Circle,” and one came back with a kiss. Those lips are Shelley […]
6 Feb
In March of 1949—not sure of the day—Billie Holiday showed up for a photo shoot at Carl Van Vechten’s. She was told to wear a […]
3 Feb
In the Vimeo below, Charles Bernstein reads part of a poem from his book, Dark City that he made for his friend Li Zhimin, […]
26 Jan
I am a big fan of chapbooks because they are heartfelt and often come straight from the author. Bonny Finberg’s Déja Vu is that […]
19 Jan
Joan Eardley painted children in the slums of Glasgow and then lived in Catterline, a fishing village nobody went to. She found beauty in […]
16 Jan
A year ago, I heard Greg Masters read new work at the Parkside Lounge. The poems he read then are now published in It […]
6 Jan
Michael Ruby is not only a poet, but a journalist who works as an editor at the Wall Street Journal where he is involved […]
2 Jan
What better way to start than at the beginning. These will be the first poems in my new book, Fucking and Other Poems, which […]
29 Dec
When I look back on my life as a reader, there are particular books I remember with pleasure because they drew me in as […]
27 Dec
I’ve heard Francine Witte read her Charley poems on several occasions, and I’ve always enjoyed them, so it had been on my mind to […]
