On this week's podcast: Alicia E. Stallings talks about the Elgin Marbles, shipwrecks, boxing matches, the air in 19th-century Athens, ugly paintings, and other highlights from her new book FRIEZE FRAME poetryfoundation.org/audio/1683621/…

"To say he did not give a fuck what you think is an understatement...being Black and queer turned him into something profane and unspeakable to numerous communities, so why did he need to revere anything they held sacred?" James Hannaham on Essex Hemphill poetryfoundation.org/articles/16838…

RIP to the incandescent Alice Notley. There's innumerable things to say about her and her work, but here's something she said in an interview about Ted Berrigan a couple of years ago, and it seems as fitting a tribute as anything

From the June issue of POETRY magazine, three new essays in the "Hard Feelings" series: Richard Hell on despair: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine… Elaine Kahn on shame: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine… Will Harris on neediness: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Two by Roger Brown: Mothra At Inner Circle Drive (1988) and Killer Crab (1986)

"I'm not gonna say everyone needs a dildo, but I'm gonna say that there are many people whose lives would be improved by dildos." — Stephanie Burt (Taylor's Version) 🥥✨ on this week's podcast, talking about her new anthology SUPER GAY POEMS poetryfoundation.org/audio/1692522/…

He opened the first Black-owned art gallery in New York; he crossed the Sahara Desert eighteen times; he exiled himself and left America to "perish in its own vicious puke.” — David Grundy on the visionary surrealist Ted Joans poetryfoundation.org/articles/16926…

The Ocean Vuong takedown is its own art form, and this piece by Tom Crewe in London Review of Books is effervescent with contempt: "[Vuong's] language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Why you never bring the hookup home. From Christopher Coe’s SUCH TIMES (1993)

Roger Brown, A MIDNIGHT GIRL IN A SUNSET TOWN (1987)

Roger Brown, CHAIN REACTION (WHEN YOU HEAR THIS SOUND YOU WILL BE DEAD) (1978)

Honoré Sharrer, BEFORE THE DIVORCE (1976)

On the podcast this week: Alina Stefanescu on the ruins of beauty ("it's a pity we live in a culture where we can't read the lines on each other's faces as something beautiful"), fear of flying, life in the Romanian Republic of Alabama, writing poetry, etc. …off-the-shelf-87f4b310.simplecast.com/episodes/the-l…

Stoked to see that NYRB is publishing THE COMPLETE C COMICS, Joe Brainard's collaborative comic with Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Peter Schjeldahl, and other NY schoolers nyrb.com/products/the-c…

The first known depiction of a same-sex marriage. Elisar von Kupffer, 1915

Two by Roger Brown now on view in Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s survey of queer art and activism in Chicago

I reviewed James McWilliams’s biography of Frank Stanford for POETRY. I poured a lot into this—Stanford’s my favorite poet, and this book is top shelf. poetryfoundation.org/articles/17068…

Do you like poetry and the internet? Come work with me: Poetry Foundation/POETRY magazine is hiring a social media associate: full-time, in Chicago, pays $70,000 - $78,000 recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/job…

“Like Frank O’Hara I have behaved disgracefully, thrown up on Erica Jong, fainted at readings… It is the most embarrassing thing that could happen, outside of death” 😍

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