The latest installment of Stan Persky’s The Short Version: Paul Alexander.

Stan Persky offers us the fourth part of his ongoing series. This one is about the poet Jack Spicer, and is titled, as is one of Spicer’s books, After Lorca

The Third of Stan Persky’s serial we’re running under the working title of The Short Version,

The second of our serialization of Stan Persky’s The Short Version. (The first can be found in the probe section of the archives).

Bosnian Writer Dzevad Karahasan calculates the old and new possibilities of European history and literature

Stan Persky begins a short-hand version of human and other kinds of history, beginning with a new movement in poetry called Aboutism

Sharon Thesen has some thoughts about what happened in Yugoslavia, and what it reveals about the abuse of language

Bill King recalls a Memphis moment with Janis Joplin

Brian Fawcett thinks about where writing comes from, and where it’s headed

Brian Fawcett Takes a Personal Measure of the Future of Poetry