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Bill Carty Diagram

2010-03-05T00:00:00.001Z

"[Heather McHugh's] poems about these subjects, and many others, offer a refreshing return to—and reinvention of—staple poetic devices like wit and metaphysical speculation." Stephen Ross • The Oxonian Review

T.R. Hummer Gulf Coast

2010-03-04T00:00:00.003Z

"''A most affecting scene of poverty and distress—For the service of the present year.'" Giles Goodland on the cross-readings of Caleb Whitefoord • Intercapillary Space

Dora Malech Sport

2010-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

"Awakened expectations can build the strongest of cages. [Mahmoud] Darwish baffled those expectations as often as he satisfied them." Eric Ormsby • Bookforum

Devin Johnston Free Verse

2010-03-02T01:51:00.000Z

"Military references are everywhere, though at one point we seem to be at Wimbledon watching tennis." Daisy Fried on Ciaran Carson and others • Poetry

Don Paterson Granta

2010-03-01T00:00:00.001Z

"[H]e would rather have been returned to his own library than hope his works would feature in someone else’s, even two or three hundred years hence." Steve Donoghue on Ovid • Open Letters Monthly

Conor O'Callaghan Blackbox Manifold

2010-02-28T13:34:00.001Z

“'Classic Poems' loom in the text like roadblocks: there’s Seamus Heaney on the bogland, Derek Mahon in the churchyard, Paul Muldoon contemplating the hay." Tim Keane on The New North • Rain Taxi

Donald Revell Blackbox Manifold

2010-02-27T13:36:00.001Z

"Many people’s initial reaction is of perplexity and annoyance at its declining to resolve into sense." Simon Morley on John Ashbery • TLS

John Grey Press 1

2010-02-26T00:00:00.001Z

"Every now and then someone asks me, 'Who are the best poets writing today?' My answer? 'I have no idea.' Nor do I believe that anyone else does." David Alpaugh • Chronicle of Higher Education

Mairead Byrne Coconut

2010-02-25T14:58:00.005Z

"I wonder if this is what the crowd of male critics who have been oinking appreciatively since Poems was released last year feel when they read Seidel." Molly Young on Frederick Seidel • Poetry

Nancy K Pearson Anderbo

2010-02-25T13:20:00.006Z

"What this well-described still life teaches is how framing an image is authoritarian in nature." G Christopher Williams on Wallace Stevens • Pop Matters

Douglas Basford Diagram

2010-02-24T00:00:00.005Z

"Jack Butler Yeats has been 'absurdly eclipsed' by his more famous brother, William Butler." Alex Niven on Cal Bedient and the Yeats brothers • The Oxonian Review

Joshua Marie Wilkinson Boston Review

2010-02-23T00:37:00.001Z

"At midnight on October 8, 2009, about 50 people gathered on the sidewalk before Baltimore’s Westminster Church." Abigail Deutsch on Edgar Allan Poe • Poetry

Kathleen Rooney RealPoetik

2010-02-22T00:00:00.001Z

"The bats are the philosophers, the masters of via negativa." Rosanna Warren on Louise Glück • The New Republic

Gail Mazur Slate

2010-02-20T16:42:00.002Z

"The great inventor of the archaic was, in Davenport’s view, Ezra Pound, whose 'daedalian art' produces a 'golden honeycomb,' in which the Homeric gods, the Eleusian mysteries, the earliest Chinese sages and poets, and Pound’s own friends and enemies inhabit one and the same cosmos." Marjorie Perloff on Guy Davenport • Sibila

Bill Yarrow Diagram

2010-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

"I think most readers of poetry can tell from the opening lines of a book if it’s a book they want to read more of, just as most of us make a decision about seeing a movie from its trailer." Joan Houlihan • Contemporary Poetry Review

Ange Mlinko Boston Review

2010-02-18T01:40:00.000Z

"It was only a trip to Armenia in 1930 that restored him to real things and people." Andrew McCulloch on Osip Mandelstam • TLS

John Gallaher Caffeine Destiny

2010-02-17T00:00:00.000Z

"It could be that an international vault will have to be established for poetry, to insure the renewal of the greatest variety of voices, of lines capable of challenging the uniformity of thought." C.D. Wright • Lana Turner Journal

Derek Mahon Gallery

2010-02-15T22:30:00.001Z

"Exerting a more persuasive claim than the timid and hesitant modernity of postwar Ireland, the power of myth has continued to inform the poet's imagination." Sean O'Brien on Eilean Ni Chuilleanain • The Guardian

Robert Bohm Caffeine Destiny

2010-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

"Poetry is to prose what a single malt is to a pint of good beer." Robin Robertson in conversation with Marc Vincenz • Open Letters Monthly

Chris Andrews The Manchester Review

2010-02-14T20:16:00.003Z

"Yet there are few real poets that have made a mark on the national spirit, although a lot of authors have written verses and a lot of them continue to do so." Jairo Guzman on Colombian poetry • Poetry International

Terrance Hayes Harvard Review

2010-02-13T20:14:00.002Z

"But did you know about the redemption needed at the end of a poem?" Jenny Diski • LRB

Sherman Alexie Blackbird

2010-02-12T00:00:00.001Z

"I’ve always got antennae up. They’re filtering the static. When something stands out as odd and maybe troubling, they record it for later." Rae Armantrout in conversation with Daniel Benjamin • Chicago Weekly Online

Jane Hirshfield The New Yorker

2010-02-11T14:17:00.001Z

"He once wrote a Ballade for the Duke of Orleans, responding in English to the Duke’s offer, made in 1457, of a prize for the best ballade with the refrain: Je meurs de soif auprès de la fontaine (‘I die of thirst, here at the fountain’s side’)." D.M. Black on Richard Wilbur • The Dark Horse

2010-02-10T22:28:00.002Z

"A lot of people apparently don’t like being a type; I like being a type. I wouldn’t like to be only a type, but it’s fine for me to be a septuagenarian bald English lover of Bob Dylan." Sir Christopher Ricks in conversation with Kit Toda • Literateur

Natalie Eilbert Diagram

2010-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

"Her most striking virtues, shared in such measure by few other poets around, remain her unfettered wackiness, her lush appreciation of forms, her blend of little nuggets of ironic truthiness with truly nugatory trash, and her sonic as well as intellectual adventurousness." Will Cordeiro on Susan Wheeler • Jacket