Open Source (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Stephen Burt makes you think of Samuel Johnson and also “The Simpsons.” If Harold Bloom were a precocious thirty-something again, if he loved science fiction and underground rock ‘n’ roll, [...]
Harriet (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
In his introduction to Something Understood—the recent volume of poems and essays honoring critic Helen Vendler—Stephen Burt notes how her readings of poetry lead her back to the poets themselves. In Vendler’s aesthetics of sympathy, “the effort to understand how a form works as it does, why it moves us, why a poet chose to [...]
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Wanted to tell everyone in Minneapolis to go to the Twin Cities Book Festival in MCC in downtown Mpls today. Joyelle will discuss "the future of poetry" with Stephen Burt, Matvei Y and some others at 10:30. And the bookfair is the only place where you'll be able to score the brand new Action Books book, Killing Kanoko by Hiromi Ito(translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles)...
p-ramblings (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
chicago poetry has found its way into many discussions lately. kent adam (this is his older article--he's been active in the comment boxes lately) ray stephen burt bob Poetry/Granta tim (older post but about the same thing) many mention the city visible . i was asked several times during the series A conference last weekend to throw in some ideas, but really i just like the fact that...
