Nota bene: This month, Caesura has launched Museum Poetica.

This Museum shall be composed of four regular monthly galleries. These shall be as follows:

1) “Anvil and Rose,” being a gallery of fortnightly columns of five lightning-reviews on recent publications of poetry, alternately written by two witty, sometimes spiky, flâneurs: Inspector Watt, and Herman van den Reek.

2) “Translucine,” being a monthly gallery of work, in bilingual offering, from a great and too-little known poet writing in a language other than English, introduced by the translator, and curated by Jorges Lewis Borge.

3) “Skáld,” being a monthly gallery featuring the work of an important living poet writing in English, whom the general coordinator of the Museum Poetica (Frederick Wyatt) deems worthy of a great deal more consideration; this gallery shall carry a text of appreciation from an invited poet-scholar, as well as a capacious photo essay focused upon the Skáld and his, her, or their informal and poetic history, personally curated and captioned by said Skáld. 

4) “Neglectorinos,” being a monthly gallery that highlights a selection of work by a poet in English no longer living, and who is judged to be alarmingly neglected and in urgent need of more attentions, introduced by an invited poet-scholar, and curated by W.B. Ozymandias. 

Thank you for your presence, and please continue to keep us company. Surprises await, poets, five times a month.

—Frederick Wyatt

[Cle Elum, Washington, November 1, 2020]