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"These interruptions, making fragments out of narrative space, question the very basis of experience, of being a participant and a witness," says Renee Gladman.

Open Space has published a selection of recordings from the archives of The Poetry Project, now housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Chosen and introduced...

"It was a message of happiness by which we were called into the room, / as if to receive a birthday present given early": Quite. Yes, the highly, highly anticipated,...

[Editor's Note: Part 1 of "Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets" can be found here.] On Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Kizer was my poetry mentor, great friend and goddess. Here is an...

I became the corpse, because—and then, it floats away again. —Alice Notley, In the Pines recall, translucent and disposable, the remaining corpses. —Roberto Tejada, Lost Continent And one day the age will rise, Like a...

Tribute to ...Pinsky, Walcott?. Poet, Educator, Mentor The cold, cyclical dark, turning and returning. Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes...

… language as it is embodied, perpetually being created. Composition takes place in the liminal moment of history-in-the-making, at the ‘rim of occurrence’ (Leslie Scalapino). We compose ourselves, our locus,...