Poetry
Two Poems by Christopher Bolin
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Christopher Bolin for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Poetry
Books
What Was He Supposed to Do, Submit to a Shivering World? The Collected Poems of Michael Gizzi
It would be impossible for me to write impartially about Michael Gizzi’s newly published Collected Poems. I became acquainted with Michael and his poetry when I was twenty.
Poetry
A Poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected one poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
Printing a Poem on an Orchard’s Apples
The apples in Seattle's Piper's Orchard will ripen this summer and fall with words from a 26-section poem printed on their skin.
Poetry
A Poem by David Tomas Martinez
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by David Tomas Martinez for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Poetry
The Drama in the Everyday: Bernadette Mayer's Early Poems
I first began reading the works of Bernadette Mayer in 1975 or 1976, contemporaneous with their publications. While I didn’t realize it at the time, Mayer wroten them in her late 20s and early 30s, quite close to my own age.
Books
The Languages of Bernar Venet’s Conceptual Poetry
Since the outset of his career, Bernar Venet has been an inveterate experimentalist, an intrepid worker in a surprising variety of media. “People know my sculptures, of course,” he says, most likely referring to the monumental steel arcs that have garnered him international renown, “but they don’t k
Books
Delving into Multiple Depths: Barbara Henning’s 'A Day Like Today'
Poems preoccupied with geography, for the impatient reader, can feel less like landscapes and more like land mines to be avoided.
Poetry
Two Poems by Douglas Kearney
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Douglas Kearney for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Books
Transient Truths in Fragile Focus: Geoffrey O’Brien’s 'In a Mist'
Geoffrey O’Brien — critic, columnist, essayist, editor-in-chief of The Library of America, and poet — is both a preservationist and an elegist, savoring what can be saved, acknowledging what will always be lost.
Poetry
One Poem by Anaïs Duplan
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected one poem by Anaïs Duplan for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Poetry
Late Indulgences: John Ashbery’s Breezeway
A few months ago in the New Yorker, essayist John McPhee recalled an exchange with his editor at Playboy in 1970, Arthur Kretchmer, about whether to remove a certain reference in a draft he’d submitted.