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Ten years ago I had successful open-heart bypass surgery. For several hours, with my heart stopped, I knew only black. “I” was outside of space time, “dead to the world”. When I awoke on the ICU gurney-bed with my mind returned to me, I laughed. I might have been Schrodinger’s cat (1935) in a closed box, dead and alive, a quantum entanglement. Now, in Alice Notley’s The Speak Angel Series we have our first quantum poet, who can be both within the physical/menta...

The advisory group to the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the State University of New York at Fredonia invites the campus and community to hear re

Anne Waldman is breathlessly encyclopedic. Her breadth is exhaustive, at times exhausting—the whole of a life filling, spilling over pages with the urgency of a woman who knows too well how things get lost. She is called on by her elders, as we (readers, poets, artists) feel called on by her; again and again she invokes Amiri Baraka’s call to action, the instruction she carries with her: “Don’t let this stuff get buried.”

“Katz has always been fascinated by poetry, and especially by the work that came out of the New York School in the fifties and sixties.”

A sonnet contains an emotional drama of illusion and deception, crisis and resolution, crafted to make us think and feel

Michael Kellehers most recent book of poems is Visible Instruments (Chax, 2017). He is the director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale.

Bernadette Mayer, a poet whose unfiltered yet richly layered work starting in the 1960s brought a sense of magic to the rituals of daily life with a s

A New York writer and artist who found inspiration in the countryside, she used experimental forms to celebrate mundane pleasures.

  Exhibition Features Portraits of Ada, Landscapes of Maine, and MFA Debut of Rush, and Celebrates Promised Gift of Katz’s Archive. Alex Katz’s bold portraits and lyrical ...

“He called this morning and asked me to send him some money. (I wish I could understand how a man could love two women!)”