Category Archives: Poets

Néstor Perlongher - A Selection of Poems & Commentary

This past weekend Dennis Cooper posted some Néstor Perlongher poems on his blog. This was a nice surprise! The poems are translations by my friends Steve Dolph and CAConrad. They did great work on this collaboration. Check out the translations here. Along with the poems is some commentary by Marlene Gottlieb and Ben Bollig and [...]

Interview with Michael Gizzi and Craig Watson

When I moved to Rhode Island in 2001 I didn’t know Michael Gizzi’s or Craig Watson’s work. Thankfully, over the course of the five years that I lived in Providence and Pawtucket I not only became familiar with their work, but also developed friendships with them. On June 9, 2006 the three of us got [...]

Keith Waldrop is a Winner!

Keith Waldrop, an old teacher of mine, has just won the National Book Award. Keith mentioned to me when he was at the Kelly Writers House for a reading earlier this month that it was nice to be nominated, but he wasn’t sure what would come of it, if he won. Hopefully what comes of [...]

is spread out evening when: on sarah dowling’s line

Friday night over dinner Carolina and I were discussing Sarah Dowling’s new book, Security Posture, which was recently published by Snare Books in Montreal. Sarah’s book is the winner of the 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, an award for emerging Canadian writers. Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Sarah now lives in Philadelphia.
Earlier this year, Chris [...]

To Paint the Mouth Like Monet Painted a Sunset - On Bacon & Halpern

     On Sunday morning, Carolina and I woke up early and got on the bus to NYC so that we could see the last day of Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For some reason, we hadn’t heard there was such an exhibit until Justin Audia mentioned it to us [...]