The WOM-PO (Discussion of Women’s Poetry) List was started in December 1997 by Annie Finch with an invitation to a small group of poets, critics, and lovers of women’s poetry. These people in turn invited other people to join, and the list has grown into a well-regarded international listserve by spreading through these networks. In…
Harriet @ Poetry Foundation remarks, “you’ve got to check out Esque Mag Issue 3 … It’s beautiful.” Announcing Esque (click!) For the third issue of esque, REVOLUTIONESQUE, we asked you to tell us about the revolution. We didn’t define what we mean by that. Whether it lives in your home, in the financial district, or the district…
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*Click for Poetry Workshop Info* The Rooster Moans: Poetry Cooperative Dates: July 8 – August 4, 2012 For as long as we can remember, poets have addressed the sun and moon, distant lovers and heroes, while also separately singing odes to the gods. The Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington once said, “We learn about the soul,…
Amy wrote: “If every poet were to record just one book of poems that they loved for the rest of us to listen to, and not just their own poems, how excellent would that be?” I’m picking up positive reactions to this idea in different online venues today. One representative observation: Now that wouldn’t be…
“But What About the Nipples?” A Nice Conversation (Pt. 1) From Roxane Gay: Blake Butler, Kate Zambreno, Amy King and I recently had an interesting and lengthy conversation about gender, publishing and so much more, prompted by lots of things including the recent, and largely excellent discussion in Blake’s “Language Over Body” post about the…
The Del Sol Review presents Failed to Include and U.S. History and Miracle on the Hudson and A Bruise That Stains the Teeth Amy King Flowers Lose Their Smell Alka Roy Fuzzy Liberty Dipika Mukherjee Loops and Arches Munize M. Khasru Woodchuck vs. The Hank Williams Zombie Ted Pelton Lost and Found Joan Gelfand The…
AMY KING 