Robert Hogg 7/6/21 Robert Hogg 7/6/21

Guy Fawkes Day in The Poetry World

Not since Ed Dorn have we had such scathing satire on the state of the arts, and not since Alexander Pope, I don’t think, have we had someone willing to take on the establishment with such vigor — and in rhymed couplets, yet!

Boyd Nielson 7/6/21 Boyd Nielson 7/6/21

On Because of Poetry…

Johnson’s work is distinguishable for its international breadth and for its pugilism.

MTC Cronin 7/6/21 MTC Cronin 7/6/21

Because of Kent Johnson

He listens to the life inside life for the life outside life.

Ruth Lepson 7/6/21 Ruth Lepson 7/6/21

Though I was often confused about the heated arguments

He has a cause and he has devoted himself to it. I can’t say God bless him but I can say Poets bless him.

John Bradley 7/6/21 John Bradley 7/6/21

Because of Poetry

Giorgia Pavlidou 7/6/21 Giorgia Pavlidou 7/6/21

Commentary on Kent Johnson’s “Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House”

David Hadbawnik 7/6/21 David Hadbawnik 7/6/21

“All Because of Poetry”: The Sincerity of Kent Johnson’s Satire

“It sucks being a famous poet. / All your time gets taken up on / the phone or in answering emails / from people looking for a blurb, / and stuff. It’s totally tiresome!”

Brian Richards 7/6/21 Brian Richards 7/6/21

On Kent Johnson

Echoes from so many sources, augmenting frequencies, ostensibly bitching about insufficient personal rewards — but more fundamentally, questioning the Peter Principle that underlies curatorial commodification.

Michael Boughn 7/6/21 Michael Boughn 7/6/21

Kent Johnson’s Really Big House on Walden Pond

Stefan Hain 6/17/21 Stefan Hain 6/17/21

nude culture

“The visitor wanted to create some very special clothing for the special person, like nobody had ever seen.”

Will Alexander 6/12/21 Will Alexander 6/12/21

Poetry: Will Alexander

As the partisan of energy as a form of imagination, Will Alexander relentlessly critiques linear conceptions of cause and effect, along with all mechanistic modalities of thought and practice.

Barry Schwabsky 6/7/21 Barry Schwabsky 6/7/21

5 Poems

with paintings by Varda Caivano

Piotr Florczyk 6/1/21 Piotr Florczyk 6/1/21

Jacek Gutorow // Piotr Florczyk

Selections from Invisible by Jacek Gutorow, translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk.

Charlie Keil 5/26/21 Charlie Keil 5/26/21

Poems by Charlie Keil

“small e for entropy / big S for Sacraments”

Aaron Fagan 5/8/21 Aaron Fagan 5/8/21

Poetry: Aaron Fagan

Fagan’s poems ask us what kind of attention we pay to the world and if that attention pays off, whether or not the world pays us back with a measure of truth.

Alex Verdolini 4/28/21 Alex Verdolini 4/28/21

Vanguardia // Alex Verdolini

… the most important episode in the history of Nicaraguan poetry was the formation of the Vanguardia group, one of the last of the interwar avant-gardes and the only one to emerge in Central America.

Jessa Crispin 4/23/21 Jessa Crispin 4/23/21

Pulse

Every time a new technology is invented our first thought is, how can I use this to get off? Our second: how can we use this to talk to the dead?

Greg Gerke 4/12/21 Greg Gerke 4/12/21

Returning to The Dreamlife of Angels

Art, that great teacher, says to us, like Robert Frost’s most famous lines, “Here are your waters and your watering place. / Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

Daniel Elkind 3/23/21 Daniel Elkind 3/23/21

Canvases

Four prose pieces by Dan Elkind.

John Olson 3/22/21 John Olson 3/22/21

Poetry: John Olson

However outlandish the utterance, however devious the digression, or pained the disclosure, an Olson poem conveys and keeps a somber promise, that words will not fail.