National Poetry Month 2012

Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric

Today’s poetry establishment commands polite respect but hardly enthusiasm and excitement.

  • Marjorie Perloff
with responses from
  • Annie Finch
  • Cathy Park Hong
  • Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Katie Degentesh
  • Robert Archambeau
  • Lytton Smith
  • Noah Eli Gordon
  • Evie Shockley
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Ange Mlinko
  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Anthony Madrid
  • Sandra Lim
  • Samuel Amadon
  • Matthew Zapruder
  • DeSales Harrison
  • Stephanie Burt
  • Maureen N. McLane

From That Were Once Beautiful Children

  • Claudia Rankine

At the Edge of the Bed

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Certain Allied Experiments

  • Lily Brown

Recommendation: Monica A. Hand’s me and Nina

  • Thomas Sayers Ellis

The Precision Chromatic Ray Race of People

  • Anthony Madrid

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Milk the Dog and Walk the Cow

  • Anthony Madrid

Pretty Little Failboat

  • Anthony Madrid

Order and Kinetics

  • Claire Donato

When All the Leaves

  • Oni Buchanan

For My Son

  • Stephen Dunn

Recommendation: Elizabeth Willis’s Address

  • Richard Deming

My Friends Were Having Sex and I Wanted to Fit In

  • Katie Degentesh

Wilds

  • Michele Glazer

“Transliterate mistranslations” of Arthur Rimbaud’s Une Saison En Enfer

  • Sean Kilpatrick

Amor Fati

  • Sandra Lim

Recommendation: Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road

  • David Lehman

All One Has Before One

  • Simone Kearney

Objectivity

  • Tanya Larkin

Stakes Is High

  • Marcus Wicker

Store

  • Jon Woodward

The Story of How You Went to the Museum

  • Jon Woodward

Recommendation: Erica Kaufman’s “Instant Classic”

  • Eileen Myles

from The Bridge

  • Mary Austin Speaker
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