Keetje Kuipers’ Beautiful in the Mouth
The more I read _Beautiful in the Mouth_ the more I notice how complicated it is. It's as complicaated as it is to be alive and just as beautiful.
View ArticleOn Marjorie Perloff’s “Reinventing the Lyric”
Whenever I see a new essay from Marjorie Perloff, I get so excited. I think the younger kids call this excitement getting “geeked out.” I geek out to Perloff. I thoroughly enjoy Perloff’s observations...
View ArticlePresses with Open Readings for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
Below is a list of presses with open readings for full-length poetry manuscripts. Most of the listings have free open readings, but I have included some that charge a Submittable fee or a reading fee,...
View ArticleLi-Young Lee’s Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee...
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleChristopher Kennedy’s Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (2007)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleOn Keetje Kuipers’ All Its Charms
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // All Its Charms (BOA Editions, 2019) is Keetje Kuipers’ third full-length...
View ArticleOn Rick Bursky’s Let’s Become a Ghost Story
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // “‘Convulsive beauty’ . . . associates surrealist beauty with the unknown,...
View ArticleKelli Russell Agodon Interviews Jeannine Hall Gailey
This interview (and a better edited version) will appear in Redactions: Poetry & Poetics issue 27, which is due out in the summer of 2023: www.etsy.com/shop/RedactionsPoetry/ // Kelli Russell...
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