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"I feel a kindred spirit to the Chinese poets of the Tang dynasty who write about being cast into exile in the western mountains." August Kleinzahler talks to James Campbell • The Guardian
"It is only through attention to these minute aspects of poetic language that tone is produced." James Longenbach on Cavafy • The New York Times
"Emerson’s plea for creative reading and writing-- no matter how tin our ears are to it now-- had nothing to do with writing stories or poems." J. C. Hallman • Bookslut
"If these poems are monologues then they are also travesties of the idea of a monologue." V. Joshua Adams on Katie Degentesh • Chicago Review (PDF)
"Stephen Burt offers what may be the first concentrated statement explaining how and why we, consumers and writers of contemporary poetry, read." Craig Morgan Teicher • Time Out New York
"Frederick Seidel’s qualities as a poet are in direct opposition to the poetry of many of his peers." Wyatt Mason • The New York Times Magazine
"The narrative forms they introduce might also be examples of extinct technology, not quite road- or sea-worthy." Joyelle McSweeney on Lyn Hejinian • Boston Review
"The trade-off for tackling a Big Topic is the tendency to deliver a message wrapped in a filo pastry of philosophy, baked halfway and served with a sprig of self-righteousness." Joan Houlihan on D. A. Powell • CPR
"I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it." Alice Oswald talks to Stephen Knight • The Independent
"We cannot have great poetry without great poetry criticism, so critics, please, do your job." Matthew Zapruder • Poetry Foundation


New poems

Dora Malech The New Yorker

Joshua Rivkin The Rumpus

A. E. Stallings New Criterion

Cliff Fell Best New Zealand Poems

Anna McDonald Paris Review

Collier Nogues Jubilat

Ghalib Poetry



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