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The Tropical Roundup: Bits from the West Coast [by Emma Trelles]
In the quest for a happier, better informed NaPoMo, The Tropical Roundup has returned. This is essentially where I post random or thematically or geographically linked tidbits from Poetry Land. Or culled from news,…
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Wilfred Owen: ‘The Last Laugh’ or ‘Dulce…?’ [by Howard Altmann]
I was compelled last week to reach out to Sydney Lea––Vermont’s current Poet Laureate––as three short essays of his, “Surviving Romance,” appeared in the spring issue of Traveltainted (Turtle Point Press) and were so…
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David Lehman’s Translation of Apollinaire’s “Zone” Live at VQR
We recently announced that David Lehman's translation of Apollinaire's "Zone" won the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. You can now read this wonderful poem over at VQR Online. From VQR:…
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All’s Fair: An interview with Chris Fritton of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair (Shanna Compton)
As readers of this blog surely know, there's a lot going on this month, poetrywise. I'm among the folks who find this exhiliarating, instead of somehow annoying or overwhelming. The bursting forth of poems…
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“What haven’t you liked recently?” [by Howard Altmann]
This post arrives from Montreal where it all feels a little gentler, a little calmer, the light of spring burning through the snow, crumbling banks of white slowing traffic on side streets, spraying slush…
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Poets & Writers Abandons Annual MFA Rankings as Bad for Applicants, Apologizes [by Stacey Harwood]
Upon receiving an audit report from the International Association of Survey Research Scientists, Poets & Writers magazine will cease publication of the so-called ranking of MFA programs. The rankings had become a…
