Richard Caddel: night, music and the clear edge of English poetry
Richard Caddel: a profile of night, music, sound, landscape, and the clear-edged lyric practice associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Poets
Ron Silliman: Language Poetry, the New Sentence, and Poetic Sequence
A critical profile of Ron Silliman, tracing Language poetry, the New Sentence, long-form sequence, social speech, sound, and the architecture of Ketjak.
Jim Behrle: Poetry, Satire, Cartoons, and Literary Public Life
A critical profile of Jim Behrle, tracing poetry, literary satire, cartoons, small-press culture, radio, digital projects, and his 2026 selected poems.
Norma Cole: Translation, Visual Art, Sound, and Experimental Poetry
A critical profile of Norma Cole, tracing translation, visual art, sound, memory, experimental poetry, and her long literary conversation between French and American writing.
Classical & Modern Poets: A Comparative Exploration
A brief perusal through history reveals the richness and dynamism inherent in poetry, an art form that reflects the complex beauty of human emotions, experiences, …
Contemporary Poets: Modern Voices You Should Read
Poetry has always given language to what feels unsayable: the deepest emotions, the strangeness of being alive, the pressure of history, the mystery of the …
Graham Foust: Compression, Irony, and the Pressure of the Short Poem
A critical profile of Graham Foust, tracing compression, irony, short forms, major collections, the translation of Ernst Meister, and his work in poetry and poetics.
Brane Mozetič: Queer Slovenian Poetry, Translation, and Intimacy
A critical profile of Brane Mozetič, tracing queer Slovenian poetry, intimacy, violence, translation, publishing, and the compressed prose poems of Banalities.
Timothy Yu: Asian American Poetry, Parody, and the Avant-Garde
A critical profile of Timothy Yu, tracing 100 Chinese Silences, Asian American poetics, parody, race, the avant-garde, diaspora, and literary scholarship.
Dan Beachy-Quick: Poetry, Thought, Translation, and the Ancient Lyric
A critical profile of Dan Beachy-Quick, tracing lyric attention, philosophy, translation, ancient Greek poetry, sound, memory, and the art of reading.
Catherine Meng: Repetition, Association, and the Lyric Sequence
A critical profile of Catherine Meng, tracing repetition, associative movement, unstable definition, dream geography, and books from Tonight’s the Night to The Year of the Big Wind.
CAConrad: (Soma)tic Poetry, Ritual, Ecology, and Queer Experiment
A critical profile of CAConrad, tracing (Soma)tic poetry rituals, ecology, grief, queer experiment, major collections, and the embodied practice of attention.