You who are skilled with the songs (PoemTalk #220) Genevieve Taggard, "Funeral in May" & "Long View" PoemTalk From left to right: Sophia DuRose, Gabrielle Woolley, Jon Hoel afilreis@upenn.edu Wed, 08/05/2026 - 08:46 LISTEN TO THE SHOWSophia…
[from Will Alexander’s Poetics: Readings Across the Radiant Glossaries, ed Joshua Schuster (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)] Will Alexander’s poetry is asynchronic and echoic. Entering the hyperspace of his work means leaving the temporal horizon…
The game is always on (PoemTalk #214) Thomas Devaney, three poems from "Getting to Philadelphia" PoemTalk Thomas Devaney afilreis@upenn.edu Fri, 01/16/2026 - 16:59 Ernest Hilbert, Guy D'Annolfo, and Larry Robin joined Al Filreis in the Wexl…
Momentary resting place (PoemTalk #213) "The word, the mawqif" by Pierre Joris & "A letter to Paul Celan in memory" by Jerome Rothenberg PoemTalk From left: Nicole Peyrafitte, Charles Bernstein, Ariel Resnikoff afilreis@upenn.edu Sun, 01/04…
We maintain the complete archive of Jacket magazine, founded and edited by John Tranter. On April 5th, we celebrated Jacket2’s fifteenth birthday! We would like to present, in honor of this anniversary, one piece from each of the last fifte…
Perhaps you’re like me, and you walk around during the day innocently enough, if with a host of questions about poetry in the back of your mind, and from time to time, when crossing a street, or walking down a long avenue, you pull out them…
Gustavson is reading from his new book, Turpentine Headache (Ristretto Books, 2026). Here are two poems from the collection: (7:37: PennSound MP4) Long regarded in the United Kingdom as one of its most distinguished contemporary poets, Robi…
December 1993 – January 2014 242 monthly introductions | approx. 1,523,284 wordsI am grateful to Brian Kim Stefans for taking on this large-scale born-digital archive. While the full set of Poetics List archive files has always been availab…
Perhaps you’re like me, and you walk around during the day innocently enough, if with a host of questions about poetry in the back of your mind, and from time to time, when crossing a street, or walking down a long avenue, you pull out them…
James Berger, whose books include The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity, Under the Impression, The Obvious Poems and the Worthless Poems, and The OBU Manifestos, is writing a new book to be titled “Naive a…
A stingray doesn’t know the word for “pathetic.” A saint does not care if prayer renders her pathetic. Poets are pathetic because they devote themselves to form in the face of formlessness. (Are they? Do they?) These kinds of formulations a…
In 1949, the poet Jack Spicer was beginning his graduate studies and working as a teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley. Soon he became wrapped up in political circumstances that would transform the trajectory of his