Will Alexander, Celebration for Bob Kaufman, San Francisco Public Library, April 11, 2016 Living art can withstand the peril of the vit...

Within the last few weeks, two major Black poets, Mari Evans  (1919/1923?-2017) and Derek Walcott (1930-2017), have passed. Unsurprisi...

Photo from Cultural Front (© Howard Rambsy II) UPDATED : Cultural Front  has added two new posts, " John Keene's 'Acrobat...

It has been a while since I've posted a translation on this site or written about the topic here, so I am happy to link to a special ...

Last April 11 in Philadelphia, the Kelly Writers House  at the University of Pennsylvania  organized a tribute to Samuel R. Delany (19...

The Black Poetics panel audience, before the room filled to capacity So the 2013 Modern Language Association conference, held this year...

Back in April in several blog posts on the Northwestern University 's annual spring Writing Festival , I mentioned my participation in...

As I noted in a previous post, yesterday I attended a Poetry and Poetics Colloquium -sponsored discussion about--it was more of a convers...

Kenneth Koch, Patsy Southgate, Frank O'Hara Here is a snippet from one of the Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ...

At 3 pm today, all grades had to be in, and mine were, so I officially have concluded the winter quarter! And what did winter quarter comp...

Nathanaël and Ronaldo V. Wilson On Monday and Tuesday, under the auspices of the university's Poetry and Poetics Colloquium , wri...

I thus voke thy aid to my adventurous song, what are "poetics," what is poetry ? Is it "segmentivity" or "the n...