Adam Elkhadem 2/7/21 Adam Elkhadem 2/7/21

Octave 27

In a visit to America’s favorite mausoleum, Octave ruminates on the role of happiness in artistic production. Is he doomed by his own joy?

Will Schreitz 2/7/21 Will Schreitz 2/7/21

Casper and Fauntleroy 5

The Chemist emerges! Will he be able to help Casper?

Brian Lucas 2/6/21 Brian Lucas 2/6/21

Cyclopean Liqueur: An Appreciation of Laurence Weisberg’s Poetry

Brian Lucas writes about the life and career of Laurence Weisberg.

Herman Van den Reeck 2/6/21 Herman Van den Reeck 2/6/21

Anvil and Rose 7

Herman Van den Reeck reviews books of poetry by Kerrin Mccadden, Deborah Paredez and Richard Blanco, and anthologies of Affrilachian and Conceptual poetry.

Suzy V. 2/5/21 Suzy V. 2/5/21

Garfield minus garfield plus a german shepherd who’s horny for jon 4

Jon apologizes to German, but is it enough?

David Hadbawnik 2/4/21 David Hadbawnik 2/4/21

Aeneid, Book 11

Book 11 of Virgil’s Aeneid : translated by David Hadbawnik with illustrations by Omar Al-Nakib.

Kent Johnson 2/4/21 Kent Johnson 2/4/21

Why Another Aeneid? Because We Don’t Need One

“I do want to be aware of those tensions (between academy and creativity, between ‘translation’ and ‘adaptation’), and find a way to play off them without being tortured or paralyzed by them or pulled too far in one direction or the other.”

Jessa Crispin 2/1/21 Jessa Crispin 2/1/21

The Queen’s Gambit

What does it mean to identify with these characters? To find their struggles the same as my own?

Adam Elkhadem 1/31/21 Adam Elkhadem 1/31/21

Octave 26

Octave’s long-awaited solo show is a success…but does Octave think so?

Emily Post-Avant 1/31/21 Emily Post-Avant 1/31/21

Emily Post-Avant: On Amanda Gorman and Poetry’s Sudden Emergence as the Favorite Art Form of the Ruling Class

…this Inaugural Poem by youngster Gorman was really more like a litany of “soft-progressive porn”: Op-ed-style clichés, mostly, with some third-tier sonic correspondences laced together here and there, likely with help from RhymeZone.com.

Will Schreitz 1/31/21 Will Schreitz 1/31/21

Casper and Fauntleroy 4

Brave as can be, Casper shuffles into the dark forest…what will he encounter there?

Grant Tyler 1/30/21 Grant Tyler 1/30/21

Figure with Meat

The best possible description for the piece is one line from the poem by Billie Chernicoff that comes with the download: “The nothing inside of a bell, unfurling…”

Miriam Nichols 1/30/21 Miriam Nichols 1/30/21

Review of From the Lost Land (I–XII) by André Spears

Equal parts Star Wars, On the Road, Deleuzean war machine, and surrealist delirium, this poem-ever-in-progress is literature on steroids, philosophy on acid. It is scandalous, funny, erudite, and endlessly generative. It is an epic without organs.

Nathaniel Tarn 1/28/21 Nathaniel Tarn 1/28/21

The Hölderliniae 3 & 17

Nathaniel Tarn’s new book of poems The Hölderliniae is a self-conscious commune with the great poets’ poet, with his life and work.

Aaron Fagan 1/26/21 Aaron Fagan 1/26/21

Five Sonnets

Five sonnets by Aaron Fagan

Tamas Vilaghy 1/25/21 Tamas Vilaghy 1/25/21

Review: Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989

Gay and lesbian artists would be best served by curators and gallery-goers taking their work seriously as art, and rejecting the sexualized promotional copy which today passes for queer aesthetics.