“Black Angus, Winter” by Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts, and received both the Nebraska Review Award and the Aldrich Emerging Poets Award. His poetry has appeared… Read More
“The Unsubscriber” by Bill Knott
What doesn't Knott subscribe to? Believing only what you see and hear. Simplistic answers. The cult of the automobile. Praise of war. A nimble metaphysical poet given to surrealism, elegant yin-yang perceptions,… Read More
“Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys
Wilson's publicist Derek Taylor described "Good Vibrations" as a "pocket symphony." It featured instruments unusual for a psychedelic rock/pop song, including prominent use of the cello and an electro-theremin. It is number… Read More
Garrett McNamara Rides a 90-Foot Wave . . . What Have You Done Today?
"Garrett McNamara just broke the world record for largest wave surfed by successfully navigating this 90-foot wall of watery death in Nazaré, Portugal. The previous record—77 feet—was set by Mike Parsons in… Read More
“Dizzy” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi is writing a biography of Anthony Hecht for St. Martin's Press. … Read More
“Fancy” by Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently Stateside (2010). In autumn 2012, Northwestern University Press will publish her fourth book of poems, Red Army Red. Her first… Read More
“The Octopus” by James Merrill
"James Merrill's readers know that he was an exceptional poet in voice, vision, range, and fluency. The winner of many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and two… Read More
“No Opera Plot Can Be Sensible, for People Do Not Sing When They are Feeling Sensible”: Poetry and Music Course in Colorado with Ernest Hilbert
In ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound proposed that “poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.” How do musical elements of poetry affect us as readers and listeners? How does one… Read More
“Little Cars”: An Animated Action Short by Lilian Hardouineau
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“Death To Van Gogh’s Ear” by Allen Ginsberg
"Nobody publishes a word that is not the cowardly robot ravings of a depraved mentality." - Allen Ginsberg… Read More
All 786 Known Planets to Scale
See how the planets in our solar system stack up against others that astronomers have discovered. … Read More
“Steel of Pennsylvania” by Kevin O’Shea
Kevin O'Shea is a poet living in New Jersey.… Read More
“Disastrous!” Geoffrey Hill Talks about Poets Who Rewrite their Own Poems, Courtesy of Tower Poetry
"Yeats is the only poet who can be applauded on some, but certainly not all, of his rewritings." - Geoffrey Hill… Read More
“Mad Maud’s Four Dreams” by Melissa Green
Responsibility and delight are the tone of the true poet, a joy in the craft that supercedes its themes, however afflicted, and on every page of this book Melissa Green's reverential elations… Read More
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Mosquito
Mosquitoes are the bane of any hammock-lover's life, particularly here in Philadelphia. I war against them with sprays, and machines that give off scents, and LED-lights with suction vacuums, and, of course,… Read More
“Falling” by James Dickey
"Falling," an astonishing poetic feat that dramatizes the accidental fall of an airline stewardess from a plane to her death in a corn field. "The greatest thing that ever came to Kansas"… Read More
“Gold Digger” by Kanye West, featuring Jamie Foxx
You will see him on TV, any given Sunday / Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundai… Read More
“Love is Like Oxygen” by The Sweet
You get too much you get too high / not enough and you're gonna die… Read More
“The Lost Kings Uphold My Side” by Ernest Hilbert (with Audio!)
Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets (2009). A spoken word album recorded with rock band and orchestra, Elegies & Laments, will appear on vinyl and for digital download in the… Read More
“Baby Missiles (Mile Marker)” by The War on Drugs
Kurt Vile's former band charges on. … Read More
“Another Elegy” by Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from… Read More
“The Gardener” by The Tallest Man on Earth
Kristian Mattson AKA The Tallest Man on Earth performs his song The Gardener in the Swedish sunset. … Read More
“Camp Allamuchy” by Rick Mullin
"Rick Mullin's SOUTINE is a multilayered marvel of a book. Its two protagonists are the Jewish expressionist painter, Chaïm Soutine, and the author himself, also an artist, but one who has had… Read More
“Air that I Breathe” by The Hollies
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound / Nothing to eat, no books to read . . . … Read More
How Much Water Is On Earth? Here’s a Visual
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one over. … Read More
Poet Quincy Lehr’s Band Black Statues Live at Arlene’s Grocery in NYC
Check out Black Statues, the band with America's third most dangerous poet on bass. … Read More
“Minotaur” by Joanna Pearson
Joanna Pearson's first collection of poetry, Oldest Mortal Myth (Story Line Press, 2012), won the 2012 Donald Justice Poetry Prize.… Read More
“Extranjero,” a Film by Daniel Lumb and Crinan Campbell
Sundance London Short Film Competition Winner.… Read More
“The Ghost Ship” by A.E. Stallings
A. (Alicia) E. Stallings was born in 1968. She grew up in Decatur, GA, and was educated at the University of Georgia and Oxford University in Classics. Her poetry has appeared in… Read More