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Gilbert Adair	Like a metaphor Ongoing relations between 'poetry' and 'science'	Mar 13, 2012
Gilbert Adair	Poetry supplement	Mar 13, 2012
Sandra Alland	New Scottish poets	Oct 11, 2012
Charles Bernstein	Barbara Guest: The art of poetry	Jun 10, 2011
Charles Bernstein	Gertrude Stein's war years: Setting the record straight A dossier	May 09, 2012
Gregory Betts	Avant-Canada On the Canadian avant-garde	Oct 06, 2016
Julia Bloch	Listening to Stephen Ratcliffe	Oct 20, 2011
Luke Bloomfield	There is no reconciliation	Dec 05, 2011
Peter Boyle	José Kozer and what unfolds	Jun 28, 2016
Pam Brown	Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia	Nov 29, 2011
Pam Brown	Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia: Part 1	Jan 26, 2012
Pam Brown	Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia: Part 2	Jan 27, 2012
Pam Brown	Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia: Part 3	Apr 12, 2012
Pam Brown	Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia: Part 4	Jul 24, 2012
Pam Brown	Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia: Part 5	Nov 16, 2012
Laynie Browne	Solidarity Texts	Apr 13, 2018
Louis Bury	Walk poems A series of reviews of walking projects	Nov 02, 2011
Tanya Clement	Dropping the Baroness in the middle Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Dada dressing, German Arts, and poetry today	Jun 20, 2011
Matthew Cooperman	'Reasons for singing': On John Taggart	Jun 18, 2014
Jon Curley	Michael Heller: New writing and commentary	Aug 29, 2018
Thomas Devaney	Traveling furiously toward you John Ashbery and the arts	Dec 09, 2013
Sarah Dowling	Adaptations in Bengali poetry	May 21, 2012
Sarah Dowling	Contemporary English poetry and North American influences	Dec 06, 2012
Sarah Dowling	North of invention	Mar 29, 2013
Sarah Dowling	On Australian Aboriginal poetry 'The last evening glow above the horizon'	Mar 06, 2012
Jim Dunn	Mass: Charles Olson	Dec 24, 2012
Jim Dunn	Mass: Cid Corman	Dec 24, 2012
Jim Dunn	Mass: Gerrit Lansing	Dec 24, 2012
Jim Dunn	Mass: John Wieners	Dec 24, 2012
Jim Dunn	Mass: Larry Eigner	Dec 24, 2012
Jim Dunn	Mass: Raw poetry from the commonwealth of Massachusetts	Dec 24, 2012
Farnoosh Fathi	New Brazilian poets	Apr 06, 2011
Al Filreis	Marjorie Perloff: A celebration	Nov 08, 2012
Al Filreis	Poetry in 1960, a symposium	Apr 27, 2011
Al Filreis	Stanley Burnshaw	Jun 28, 2011
Laura Goldstein	Toward a wilder review	Oct 06, 2015
William J. Harris	On Kenneth Irby	Nov 18, 2014
Vincent Katz	The lyrical personal of Joe Ceravolo An introduction	Mar 01, 2013
David Kaufmann	A Schuyler of urgent concern	Jun 30, 2012
Marit MacArthur	(Polish) Poetry after Różewicz	Nov 24, 2015
C. J. Martin	On Myung Mi Kim	Apr 12, 2013
J. Peter Moore	Voices on Joseph Donahue	Dec 17, 2014
Tracie Morris	The Motion of Light: Celebrating Samuel R. Delany	Feb 12, 2015
Janet Neigh	Dialogues with M. NourbeSe Philip	Sep 17, 2013
Niamh O’Mahony	Trevor Joyce: Reading in Ireland	Feb 03, 2014
Kevin M. F. Platt	Aleksandr Skidan: Two films, two poems, and an interview	Mar 02, 2018
Kevin M. F. Platt	Russian poetic counterpublics	Aug 08, 2014
Katie L. Price	Poetry Communities A conference companion	Sep 25, 2013
Patrick Pritchett	Drafting beyond the ending On Rachel Blau DuPlessis	Dec 14, 2011
Steve Prygoda	John Wieners in 'Tenzone'	Dec 24, 2012
a.rawlings	Sound, poetry: The feature	Aug 18, 2011
Margaret Ronda	On the poet-scholar	Jun 08, 2015
Jack Ross	Look and look again Twelve New Zealand poets	Nov 29, 2011
Michael Ruby	Thirteen poems by Bernadette Mayer	Mar 02, 2016
Susan M. Schultz	Pacific poetries Forms for an ocean	Apr 05, 2011
Eric Selinger	Poet with a steady job An introduction to Lawrence Joseph	Feb 09, 2012
Richard Swigg	Addressing one's peers The letters of Charles Tomlinson and George Oppen, 1963–1981	May 19, 2014
Michelle Taransky	Collaboration and possibilities Reviews of chapbooks by Dan Beachy-Quick and Srikanth Reddy	Jul 19, 2011
Nico Vassilakis	Antología poesía visual Five Chilean visual poets	Apr 28, 2014
Nico Vassilakis	Finnish vispo: Kokoomateos	Feb 15, 2016
Divya Victor	Conceptual writing (plural and global) and other cultural productions	Feb 05, 2016
Divya Victor	Discourses on vocality Vanessa Place, Kim Rosenfield, Rachel Zolf, and Myung Mi Kim	Apr 12, 2013
Kyle Waugh	Nineteen Poems	Nov 18, 2014
Kyle Waugh	Twelve letters from Kenneth Irby to Edward Dorn	Nov 18, 2014
Marta L. Werner	Hannah Weiner's 'The Book Of Revelations' A new annotated edition	Apr 07, 2011

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Disambiguating rape culture

Lynn Melnick’s nouns

BK Fischer

Photo of Lynn Melnick (left) by Timothy Donnelly.

Gertrude Stein never trusted nouns. She was wary of their tendency to fossilize meaning, even as she relished their potential to be magnetized: “Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun.”[1] Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence, eighty years later, takes up this ambivalent and vexed embrace of nouns in the space of rape culture, where adoring and wanting cross use and abuse as matters graver than grammatical concern.

From 'Eclipse' by Joe Safdie, with a note on its poetics by the author

Jerome Rothenberg

A sunrise, the sun’s course, a sunset are marvelous to no one because they occur daily. But solar eclipses are a source of wonder because they occur seldom, and indeed are more marvelous than lunar eclipses, because these are more frequent. Thus nature shows that she is not aroused by the common ordinary event, but is moved by a new and striking occurrence. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. — Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Do you have an extra cigarette?

Sommer Browning

image of a long road that fades into the distance taken from inside a car — long road

Have you ever heard Aram Saroyan read his poem “Biography”?[1] It is a poem in which he recites every year from his birth to the current year in his usual steady, calm cadence. I’m a bit fascinated with this poem; I seem to bring it up often. It really can’t be beat. It’s a pure poem. I heard him read it in 2007 (I think) at Poet’s House in New York. There are a hundred things to say about the poem, how the simplicity of it belies the fact that it describes something huge, i.e.