Mlinko asks:
Why does this feel like some sort of joke at the expense of poets, from beginning to end?
Or am I reading too much into another meaningless non sequitur of a role for interchangeable starlets?
I answer, in order: “because you’re part of that group of overly-sensitive, post-avant, Sillimanite poets who are so often predictable in [...]

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Eric Rosenfield thinks the short story is dead and then points to a dissection of the Best American Short Stories as proof!? BAS hasn’t been representative of the most vital aspects of the short story for decades (if ever). It, like the Best American Poetry series, is representative of a very narrow, exceedingly mainstream slice [...]

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What a bizarre interpretation of Gioia and Oliver. Has he read any of their poetry? How about the poets each has championed? I’m guessing not. Yes, they both feel that form has been given a bum rap in the contemporary scene, but it’s far from the ONLY kind of poetry they are supporting. The essence [...]

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From an interview with Billy Collins in Guernica:
Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. [...]

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The Summer 2006 issue of Poetry Southeast is online and a real pleasure. I wish there were an easy way to print the whole issue, but good finds already by Jeff Newberry, Lisa Siedlarz, and Bob Hicok.

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