RESISTING THE NARROWING OF COMMUNITY: BARBARA JANE REYES

Those who are familiar with MARGENTO's graph-poem poetics know to what substantial extent community is at the heart of our preoccupations, since to us poetry is community and communities are poetry. Here is some inspirational prose on poetry communities by poet Barbara Jane Reyes as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month curated by Kenji C. Liu on the Best American Poetry website. Reyes's piece also contains a link to her latest contribution to the Poetry Foundation Blog -- led by Ilya Kaminsky -- on communities (part of a wider National Poetry Month literary inquiry also involving other poets on the same and other topics).

When Kenji Liu invited me here to write about APIA poetry communities, I confess, I wanted to rant about the criticisms I have... MORE HERE

ASIAN PACIFIC HERITAGE MONTH @ THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY: KENJI C. LIU

             

Kenji C Liu: "Writing without a Center"

I have the pleasure and honor to once again guest curate a week of blog posts here for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM). Thank you very much to Best American Poetry for offering this space for thinking and writing. I consider myself active in Asian Pacific American (APA) arts and culture, but my allegiance... MORE HERE

AMERICAN LITERATI (RE)DISCOVER BENJAMIN FONDANE

John Taylor's article in the Antioch Review is available on the Institut Fondane website HERE !!!

The Music and Poetry of ALEC SCHACHNER and UGWAE storm Saigon again

POETRY FROM PARADISE VALLEY

 A splendid collection edited by celebrated poet and editor Ed Byrne and including big names such as David Baker, Charles Wright, Stanley Plumly, John Balaban, Billy Collins, Annie Finch, and many many more  HERE !!!

Uncollected ROBERT CREELEY May Day Poem on JACKET 2

Read this rare gem from the great late poet on Charles Bernstein's blog

LOST AT SEA

Concerning a news item which reported
convicts breaking their own legs with

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