New poems by esteemed public radio producer Sean Cole Sean Cole’s AFTER THESE MESSAGES is built around a series of poems written on the fly. Like Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, written during his lunch breaks at MOMA, Cole wrote poems while watching T...
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Poetry. "There is such a thing as a George Quasha poetic line. What it is can be defined, essentially, by one particular aspect of it: its gravitational field. This field makes possible an inner integrity, the line's cohesive dynamic... The preverbs...
Poetry. Art. FINELY TUNED STATIC by Charles Borkhuis, with paintings by John McCluskey, is a distinctively braided venture: a series of calls and responses between word and image that pairs poet Charles Borkhuis' glyphic, micro-narratives with paint...
Poetry. Art. Collaboration. Text mixed by John Bloomberg-Rissman, remixed by Lynn Behrendt. With 74 color collages by Behrendt. Poets Lynn Behrendt and John Bloomberg-Rissman seem to be "Practicing Hauntology" in a "Cabinet of the solar plexus." The...
Poetry. Following up on the generous depth of SWIMMING HOME (Nightboat Books, 2015) with this set of lyrically composed meditations, Katz cools, condenses and abstracts the tempo to a strolling pace. "Long histories" with "voices in rain" at a "calm...
Poetry. "Sam Truitt's unusually sculptural poem is a lockbox of secrets. But each layer of concealment, spun out of language, reveals more insidious truths. The use of Morse code and Shakespearian fragments provides a cool and elusive, but also dist...
Poetry. "Jerome Sala's cheeky, splashy poetry seems never to be in a bad mood: he sails through profound political and historical issues with a tone of insouciance that—like an erudite carnival-barker's—successfully lures us into the tent. Indeed, T...
Poetry. "For someone who loves to listen to radio at night, it is a great & magic pleasure to follow Laurie Price's 'secret longitude' through a meandering syntax all her own driving through nomadic folds cathexing Second Avenue to Essaouira & words...
Poetry. "The evanescent lilt of everyday rumination percolates through these wistful poems, ear bound to ambient eye's wry regrets and tender hopefulness. Perception becomes an aroma of reflection and infatuation in John Godfrey's fractured songs. H...
Poetry. With 25 illustrations by the author.In a remote area modulators are singing slowly before disappearing intostarlite lounges. The growers are tiny hands that weave in space. Theacrobatics of their patterns is on automatic, variations on the s...
Poetry. "He penetrates unsparingly, out of generousity. His sentiments have shadows where he focuses his examination.... His poem, like a soliliquey, seems to open up while at the same time drilling inwards"—John Godfrey.
Poetry. "...[F]or Joe Elliot, doubt is a flexible, porous scrim through which the vagaries of human knowing pulse and stretch toward the great quotidian ensemble of unknowns"—Ann Lauterbach.
Poetry. "At turns both delicate and demanding, Lynn Behrendt's remarkable first book, PETALS, EMBLEMS, is an organic and dangerous work constructed from within.... She is a powerful and grieving guide to an underworld constructed with language and l...