Luke Kennard

Here's a good poem:

Kathryn Regina's trailer

Kathryn Regina's I Am In the Air Right Now is coming soon from Greying Ghost Press. I am entirely jealous of the beauty of Greying Ghost books.

This trailer that Greg Lytle made for the book is beautiful, too.

I Am In the Air Right Now from Greg Lytle on Vimeo.

Whale Box release photos

Reviews: Mairead Byrne and John Guzlowski

Check it:
Byrne (improved)
Guzlowski

Mairead Byrne, Gabriel Gudding Interview with Kent Johnson

This interview is what artist-dialogues ought to be. It's playful, thought-provoking, and personal in all the right ways.

Anne Carson

Reading Anne Carson, reading Anne Carson
always feels like I'm doing
what I'm meant to be doing
the work I'm meant to be doing
the work that comes in "Oh!"s
like "Oh"
like I get this
which is to say exactly
that I don't get this
but I'm reading this
thank you Anne Carson
I'm reading this and
I'm doing good work
snatched in fevered snatches
the work I'm meant to be doing
getting and not getting this

Mairead Byrne

"I would have caught the T to the BLT
But you see I'M BONKERS"

from Mairead Byrne's poem "BONKERS"

A Poem by Matt Cook

[Here's one I read at UB in honor of the Department Head's 50th birthday:]



Hello, my name is Adam Robinson
and I’d like to read you a poem by Matt Cook.
It’s a really beautiful poem,
and funny, but
the most remarkable thing is that I’d like
to read it to you and
MATT COOK HAS NO IDEA.

I was going to read you one of my poems,
but I had to turn in all my poetry
to be ranked by my teacher who
not only has developed a perfect ranking system,
I’m sure, after all these years,
but after all these years she also has
developed all these years, which I’ve gotta tell you,
is something else altogether.
So anyway I’d like to read you a poem by
Matt Cook, from Milwaukee.

I thought I’d boggle your mind with
a poem by Matt Cook, from Milwaukee, who
has no idea that I want to read it to you.

He’s probably there in his house in
Milwaukee, or out with some friends.
He’s probably saying, “In the NAVY
they have to bring DENTISTS on
the BOATS because they’re at SEA
for SO LONG.” He has a knack
for expressing truth in capital letters.