Calvin Bedient

Calvin Bedient’s fifth book of poems, The Breathing Place, will be published next year by Omnidawn. He is the founder and coeditor of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion.

Supervising the Woods

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Against Conceptualism

Conceptualism aims to eliminiate affect from poetry. There are emotional and political consequences.

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Cold Gem

Fuller enters a babblingly confident corporate world where he concedes that something frightful is on the way.

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Evening in the Company of Undecided Birds

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Poetry Hot and Cold

Reviewing Leland Hickman and Myung Mi Kim.

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Millions of Strange Shadows on You Tend

—Shakespeare, sonnet 53

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Grand Failure

Hart Crane's Poems and Letters.

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A State of Emergency

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Desire’s Nemesis

Seven new poetry collections. 

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You Can Be the Subject of Wild Admiration in Ten Days

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Seven New Books

From Cathy Park Hong to Andrew Zawacki.

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Reading Frederick Seidel 

The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth.

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Review: The End of the Alphabet

By Claudia Rankine.

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No. 2 Pencil Quaquaversal Shout

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