Nonfiction

Mon Jan 14 2013 A Woman Writer Aging by Toi Derricotte What’s it like? If you’re not a woman writer aging, I can’t believe you’d be interested. Why would Read more...	Mon Jan 14 2013 Ammoniacal Masculinity: A Brief Exercise in Correlation by Brandon Davis Jennings First Chance is a bar outside Kadena Airbase. It is, anti-ironically, the first bar one passes when Read more...	Mon Jan 14 2013 Come In, It's Free by Amy Benson We were invited to Dublin to curate a robotic art show. Ireland was then the Celtic Tiger, having Read more...
Mon Jan 14 2013 Monster Magnificent by Jen Hirt I found on the sidewalk one day a catastrophe of insects. The legs of a walking stick braced under Read more...	Mon Jan 14 2013 Of Striped Food and Polar Bears by Dinty W. Moore I met my first zebra the summer I worked at the Erie Zoo as a fill-in zookeeper. My duties included Read more...	Mon Jul 16 2012 How to Read a Book by Ander Monson “Everyone, I think, will admit that a book is a work of art.” —Mortimer Read more...
Mon Jul 16 2012 In Light of Darkness by Cecilia Pinto Whenever I pass the Restaurant Sarajevo in the 2700 block of West Lawrence in Chicago I think of Read more...	Mon Jul 16 2012 Los Huevos del Señor by Nathaniel K. Perkins I wanted to get hit by a car. I’d heard about drunk, suicidal types running out onto the freeway Read more...	Mon Jul 16 2012 See You Next Week by Ander Monson The storm of passion once over, he would have given worlds, had he possessed them, to have Read more...

Views

The Moving Face (for Roger Ebert)

The first time I ever really thought about Roger Ebert it was because I knew he was warm, dry, and celebrating and I was cold, wet and furious. It was January 2005 in Chicago, and unsurprisingly it was snowing on me and members of Not Dead Yet as we staged a protest outside the Union League Club, surrounded by a row of news trucks.
On the Early English Essay: An Experimental Array

"Essay" enters into English untamed.
The Facts of the Matter

Here is how it happened: The door to the suite was open that night when I walked past and saw her splayed across a couch, one foot on the floor, one leg hooked over an arm rest.
Excerpt from Office Girl

On that Monday at the end of January, Jack Blevins, a questionable young man of twenty-five, rides his blue bicycle beneath the flurry, with tape recorder in hand.

Interviews

Douglas Foster: Interview

"We’re quite rightfully concerned by the level of unemployment in the United States and the ways people were devastated by the financial crisis of 2008, but in the circumstances people face in a place like South Africa, 10 percent unemployment would be heaven."
Stephen Elliott: Interview

“We all change; the things you want from writing, at a certain age, become different from the things you want later. I’ve avoided any obligations, and I still live like a child. I don’t have a wife and kids. I’m on my own. It’s a choice.”
B.J. Hollars: Interview

"Blurring the Boundaries was inspired by my own frustration with facts."
Karen Rigby: Interview

My poetry won’t suit everyone. It has been described as dense; I’m aware of that response, so I wouldn’t say “I hope everyone reads it.”

Reviews

The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

At the heart of this collection, Barnett’s second, is an engagement with Kant’s idea of the sublime, namely that the self experiences both terror and dread in the face of the infinite—whether death or, as the Romantics understood it, the implacable force of Nature.
Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, by Heléne Aylon

The memoir, like the artist herself, swerves between cutting-edge installation art, the ancient passages of the Bible, and centuries-old Jewish law and tradition.
The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990 edited by Harold B. Segel

This fascinating book, edited by Prof. Harold B. Segel of Columbia University, presents a rich sampling of writings by people imprisoned in the jails of the former Eastern European Soviet colonies...
Love: An Index by Rebecca Lindenberg

In 2009 the poet Craig Arnold disappeared on the remote Japanese island Kuchinoerabujima, while hiking near a volcano. Though Japanese authorities searched for days, Arnold was never found. Rebecca Lindenberg, his partner of six years, has now written Love: An Index, a meditation on their love and her loss of him.

Blog Posts

How Poems Move #12

Apr 25, 2013
How Poems Move #11

Apr 23, 2013
How Poems Move #10

Apr 18, 2013
How Poems Move #9

Apr 17, 2013