Postmodern Poetry

WATCH: Virtual Book Tour

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poetry Techniques, Writing Poetry, Poetry, Ecological Literature, Postmodern Poetry, Ecological Poetry, Video, Authors, Poetry Reading, American Poetry, Modernism, Ezra Pound, Creative Writing, Books News
Anis Shivani

We introduce three brilliant emerging poets, all with poetry books out in early 2011. They give us an intimate look at what these books mean for thei...

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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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David Lehman's Incestuous Coterie: Why the New 'Best American Poetry' Sucks Even More Than Its Twenty-One Predecessors

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy Collins, Modernist Poetry, American Poetry, Mfa Programs, Poetry Criticism, Best American Poetry 2009, Postmodern Poetry, David Lehman, Poetry, Books News
Anis Shivani

For years, the Best American Poetry series has been on a downward slope (using slope in the most generous sense of the word). For its 2009 edition, it seems to have reached a final resting point.

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