Avant Garde Poetry

Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ray Manzarek, Jackson Pollock, Beats, The Doors, Robert Creeley, Zen, Michael McClure, Abstract Expressionism, Jack Kerouac, Avant-Garde Poetry, West Coast Poetry, Beat Poetry, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Dunan, Books News
Anis Shivani

There are few poets as underappreciated today as Michael McClure. For close to six decades now, he has been writing visionary poetry, lauded by many ...

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Is American Poetry At A Dead-End?

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Poetry, Mfa Programs, Small Presses, Creative Writing Pgorams, Publishing Industry, Modernism, Experimental Poetry, Avant-Garde Poetry, Creative Writing, Poetry, Postmodern Poetry, Billy Collins, Video, Books News
Anis Shivani

"Is American poetry at a dead-end? Have American poets betrayed the great legacy of modernism? Why or why not?

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What's The State Of American Poetry?

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modernism, Annie Finch, Writing, Avant-Garde Poetry, Language Poetry, Mfa Programs, Danielle Pafunda, American Poetry, Creative Writing, Clayton Eshleman, Postmodern Poetry, Ron Silliman, Books News
Anis Shivani

This seems to be a particularly angst-ridden moment for the followers of American poetry. Is it savagely alive, or is it a moribund corpse, having long been administered last rites?

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