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Talking Poetry, Trance, and the Body with Kristin Prevallet – Cara Benson
Kristin Prevallet is the author of four books of poetry, including I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and a PEN translation fund award.…
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“You have to learn to write a different kind of poem”: An Interview with Dan Boehl [by Ben Mirov]
Kings of the Fucking Sea, Dan Boehl's new poetry collection from Birds LLC, is a phantasmagoric adventure about dissolution, loss and pirates. I talked to him about the role of painters in his work,…
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Shorter, Hence Sweeter – Cara Benson
A bit of talk on verbosity here this week, from a comment on Derrida, who seemingly always took ten words to do the work of one, to an article containing advice on legalese…
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On Teaching Poetry in Prison – Cara Benson
While conversation often takes a certain turn in various social interactions outside of literary gatherings when the word "poet" rings out in response to the sooner-or-later query "what do you do?" (which usually stands…
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“It Can Always Be Shorter . . . “
Chief Justice Roberts relates a telling story from his 1981 clerkship for then-Justice William Rehnquist. Upon reviewing Roberts' draft, Rehnquist circled vast amounts of the Roberts effort and instructed him to put that material…
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Last Night’s Memorial for Paul Violi at the Poetry Project [by Stacey Harwood]
Last night's memorial service for Paul Violi confirmed what those of us who love him already knew: his poetry will live on, will find new audiences always, will survive in the valley of its…
