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In Today’s Wall Street Journal: ‘Carpe Diem’ in 46 Immortal Lines [by David Lehman]
Yao Xiao The most marvelous seduction poem in the English language combines the logical precision of the mathematician with the wit of a courtier and passion of a lusty lover. Andrew Marvell's "To His…
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Meet the [New] Poet: Cori A. Winrock [by Rochelle Hurt]
Cori A. Winrock is another new poet whose work I've been seeing (and loving) everywhere. She agreed to answer some questions and share a poem below. Cori A. Winrock’s first book, This Coalition of Bones,…
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Throwback Thursday: Suicide & Biography in Poetry [by Rochelle Hurt]
It’s Throwback Thursday. For those of you who aren’t on social media, that means we all post Polaroids of ourselves in the ‘80s, or something like that. I wasn’t very interesting in the ’80s,…
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A crowd-sourced sonnet? Sounds like Sir Realist is at it again
We need line 12 for our crowd-sourced sonnet! 'Tis a game anyone can play. It elevates collaboration and chance to an esthetic dieal." — Manny Kant Here is where we are right now: <<<How…
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Meet the [New] Poet: Lo Kwa Mei-en [by Rochelle Hurt]
Today I’d like to focus on one of my favorite contemporary poets. Lo Kwa Mei-en is from Singapore and Ohio. She is the author of Yearling (Alice James Books, 2015), and her poems have appeared in Black Warrior…
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The Aesthetics of Ruin Pt. 2: “a sucking century and its empty gold coat” [by Rochelle Hurt]
Yesterday I wrote about Rust Belt and ruin poetry mostly in terms of content and motifs, but today I’m thinking about form and style. What kinds of sounds and structures, for example, acknowledge and…
