On John Keats’s 218th Birthday…
… here, what to my mind remains, besides & on a par with the poems, his greatest contribution to 20C & 21C poetics & thought, & found in his Letter to George and Tom Keats,...
Category: Poet
Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar…
via The Electronic Intifada : … poet of the Palestinian liberation struggle Terri Ginsberg New York City 1 October 2013 Fouzi El-Asmar (photo courtesy of the International Council for Middle East Studies) Renowned Palestinian poet, author, journalist...
Kwame Dawes on Kofi Awoonor
Below, the opening of Kwame Dawes’ article on Kofi Awoonor from Speakeasy Magazine. You can read the full article here. NAIROBI, Kenya–I will travel to Ghana to be present at the burial of Kofi Awoonor....
Great Interview with Moroccan Poet Abdellatif Laâbi
Spoiler alert: it’s in French. Grand entretien avec Abdellatif Laâbi – Comédie… by villedemontpellier
Ghassan Zaqtan’s Canadian Visa
Last week I was in Glasgow, waiting for Algerian poet Habib Tengour as we were supposed to do a joint poetry reading and a shared presentation of our anthology of North African Literature at the University...
Clayton Eshleman’s Experience
Clayton Eshleman has been one of this country’s most serious, engaged & productive poets, translators & thinkers on the matter of poetry for more than half a century now. As Adrienne Rich wrote about...
anselm’s webern poem
This morning, thinking of old friend Anselm Hollo now in hospice, I read into MAYA, that gorgeous 1970 Cape Golliard book of his, gathering poems from 1959 to 1969. Here is the one that...
Free Qatari Poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami
I signed the French version of this a couple days ago, but will also now sign the English version. Please do the same — there are indeed places in the world where you can...
Robert Duncan to Kenneth Irby, May 10, 1963
Last year as he & his work were being celebrated at the University of Lawrence, Kansas [see post here] Ken Irby gave me a copy of & permission to reprint the following letter by Robert...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux