Joyelle McSweeney on Tove Ditlevsen: "Her work is as luminous and haunted as a department store mirror in which the young girl studies her possible futures and the aging woman searches the black pools of her pupils for the little doll who used to live there." www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/166...

Roger Brown, NIGHTTIME (1968)

Roger Brown, THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (1985)

For the new issue of @artforum.com, I wrote about the late Barbara DeGenevieve, an artist whose credo was “no subject is taboo, nothing is sacred." She made porn. She embraced queerness. She punctured liberal pieties around race and class. She had a sense of humor. www.artforum.com/features/bar...

The Poetry Foundation is now accepting nominations for our annual criticism prize. This $10,000 award honors an outstanding book-length work of poetry criticism published in the US in the prior year. Authors can nominate themselves. More info here: www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/criti...

‪In a dream assignment, I got to go long on Hannah Arendt, poetry, Hill and Grill's new collection *What Remains*, and the limits of thinking for @poetryfoundation.bsky.social. My thanks to @jeremylybarger.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/164...

I've been waiting for someone to publish the entire run of THING and Primary Information has stepped up. Almost 500 pages, out in February, featuring Gary Indiana, Dennis Cooper, Vaginal Davis, Essex Hemphill, David Wojnarowicz, Rupaul, etc. primaryinformation.org/product/thing/

"For Jan Beatty, poetry is neither intellectual exercise nor fodder for the tenure file, but an incantatory statement of inner life: a protest, a jeremiad, a prophecy, a manifesto." — Ed Simon profiles the punk laureate of Pittsburgh www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/163...