Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a
variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has …

Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day both articulate a domestic
quotidian devoted to what Rita Felski in Doing Time calls “the repetitive tasks of social …

This article examines modernist genealogy in Alice Notley's 1992 poem The Descent of
Alette. Notley's central speaker finds herself riding on a nightmarish subway ruled by a male …

When asked, at the start of a 2011 interview for the Poetry Foundation, whether she was
born in Brooklyn or Queens, the poet Bernadette Mayer gives a neither/both answer.“The …

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her
fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada …

Sometimes the word “lyric” seems to appear everywhere: either it's used interchangeably
with the word “poetry” or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary …

The history of mid-20 th century American poetry should be understood alongside a history
of personal recording media. Between the end of WWII and the late 1970s, three …

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a
tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O'Hara, Ted …

Abstract After World War II, New York City became an international cultural capital, and
poets and artists flocked to it. In Abstract Concrete, I group three such poets—ones who …

If my words weren't perfect, Larry could fix them with some red or yellow; the same for his
brushstrokes and pictures, I could amend them with adjectives and nouns... There was …