Interview
Reading these and the other poems that make up Out of Print what struck me was less the ostensive morbidity of Poirier’s images than the searing honesty underlying them.
Art
A massive search activity in South Florida has created search trends, effectively publishing poems by Miami inmates within the suggestions of Google search.
Books
From the outset of his career Bernstein has fought for a poetry of leaps and fissures, one that inhabits the space between logic and irrationality.
Art
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening a visual biography of the author Sylvia Plath, including her rarely-seen artwork.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected an excerpt from Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields for her bimonthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Alex Dimitrov for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Performance
In my many years of attending poetry readings, I’ve never encountered a performance technique quite like Greaves’ revisions.
Books
In all of his poems, you feel Felsenthal finding his way from word to word and from line to line: he is not trying to tell a story or replay an anecdote so much as go where the words and phrases, sounds and meanings, lead him.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Khadijah Queen for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Books
Borzutsky makes pathetic fallacy less an instrument of empathy than an agent of unsettlement, provoking strong reaction to the many historical and imaginary vignettes he creates.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Alan Felsenthal for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Books
Four million people (mostly civilian) were killed in the three years of the Korean War, and it is estimated that a million more Koreans were displaced in its aftermath, but here in the United States, the war is frequently referred to as “forgotten.”