Cynthia Sailers: Visual Culture, Landscape, and Psychological Pressure
A critical profile of Cynthia Sailers, tracing visual culture, landscape, prose poetry, psychological pressure, and the associative poetics of Lake Systems and Rose Lungs.
Poets
Leslie Scalapino: Time, Perception, and Experimental Writing
A critical profile of Leslie Scalapino, tracing time, perception, serial form, inter-genre writing, collaboration, visual structure, and O Books.
Kevin Killian: New Narrative, Pop Culture, Jack Spicer, and San Francisco
A critical profile of Kevin Killian, tracing New Narrative, pop culture, Jack Spicer, Poets Theater, Small Press Traffic, and his posthumous collected poems.
Rodney Koeneke: History, Public Language, and Contemporary American Poetry
A critical profile of Rodney Koeneke, tracing history, public language, contemporary speech, major poetry collections, collage, rhythm, and cultural memory.
Wanda Phipps: Desire, City Life, Performance, and Poetry in Translation
A critical profile of Wanda Phipps, tracing desire, city life, performance, major poetry collections, Yara Arts Group, and translations of Ukrainian poetry.
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: Rhyme, Queer Poetics, Song, and Literary Tradition
A critical profile of Julian Talamantez Brolaski, tracing rhyme, queer and Two-Spirit poetics, major books, country music, and literary tradition.
Peter Davis: Direct Address, Comic Poetics, and Literary Self-Consciousness
A critical profile of Peter Davis, tracing direct address, comic self-exposure, literary life, and the books Hitler’s Mustache, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!, TINA, and Band Names & Other Poems.
Ronald Palmer: Queer Poetics, Sound, Film, and Fragmented Form
A critical profile of Ronald Palmer, tracing queer poetics, gender, sound, fragmented form, film, family memory, Logicalogics, and Brother Nervosa.
David Braden: Poetry, Playwriting, Travel, and Literary Life in Taiwan
A critical profile of David Braden, tracing poetry, playwriting, travel, teaching, literary community-building, and his writing life in Taiwan.
Kiely Sweatt: Short Forms, Performance, Translation, and Poetry Communities
A critical profile of Kiely Sweatt, tracing short forms, origin of, Pornography, Prostíbulo Poético, translation, performance, and literary community.
Lesle Lewis: The Sentence, Landscape, Humor, and Associative Poetry
A critical profile of Lesle Lewis, tracing the sentence, prose poetry, New England landscape, associative movement, humor, and books from Small Boat to Rainy Days on the Farm.
Guillermo Parra: Poetry, Translation, and Venezuelan Literary Traditions
A critical profile of Guillermo Parra, tracing his poetry, translations of Venezuelan writers, literary history, and work across poetry and fiction.