Interview with Michelle Taransky

Check out an interview with Omnidawn author Michelle Taransky at The Offending Adam. excerpt: “The thwarts, the stutters, the choice to not conclude—this isn’t the way I speak when I go to the bank. As Oppen writes, ‘We change the…

Announcements: Lissa Wolsak & Sandra Stone

Congrats to Lissa Wolsak, whose Squeezed Light: Collected Poems 1994-2005 was recently published by Station Hill Press. Order here. Read the introduction here, written by George Quasha & Charles Stein. * Congrats to Sandra Stone, 2010 Winner Poetry Society of America…

Poetry: Todd Melicker

* rendezvous: sincerely, (please insert your dna sequence here) so named i’m coming aware of the whole, what that all parts belong       & so does water                   coaxed forth that’s what i wanted to say/tell you               the animals the animals               relieve…

Poetry: Matthew Cooperman

Still: Pioneer Craft: a means of moving forward by focused attention to presence in physical form Object: Shangri La, Valhalla, Elysium, Cibola, Shambhala, Arcadia, Utopia, Pleasantville, Dick Dale, Moby Dick, Ojai, Daisen, Asphodel (that greeny flower) Expression: Why, you’ve got…