Jeffrey Side

At one time, poetry was viewed as being the apex of literary accomplishment. However, in contemporary cultural discourse, poetry’s cultural ...

A good friend of mine, Paul Simister, died recently. I first met him in 1982 when I was 19 and he was 36. We were both studying at Mabel Fle...

Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion’s The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry , published in 1982, sparked controversy due to its perce...

I just heard that Anny Ballardini died a few years ago. I hadn't been in contact with her since around 2013. She was a great supporter o...

I found out recently that poet and translator Kent Johnson had died. I was last in contact with him last month, and though he was ill due to...

Good to see that the name of The Argotist Online ("argotist") has now become part of the lexicon. It is a portmanteau word, create...

Here is an article by Tim Allen called ‘The Kiss of Life? The Kiss of Death? Some Thoughts on Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the Acad...

Just heard that Michelle Greenblatt, a poet and editor friend, died last Monday. She was only in her early thirties. I hadn’t had contact...

Here is an article written by Kenny Goldsmith praising Richard Prince who has made a facsimile copy of The Catcher in the Rye , inserting hi...

Jake Berry’s essay, 'Poetry Wide Open: The Otherstream (Fragments In Motion)' deals with the issue of certain types of avant-garde ...

A dear friend of mine, Rachel Lisi, has passed away. I am deeply shocked and saddened. She was a great visual artist, with her photography ...

A new book by Kent Johnson is now available. It's called Day and is published by Blazevox. It has had some good reviews, including the ...

I have just seen an article by Stephen Burt called ‘ The New Thing: The object lessons of recent American poetry’ in the Boston Review in w...

I came across an interesting interview with Seamus Heaney (a recent recipient of the David Cohen prize for literature , being awarded £40,00...