Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

The consequences for poetry are symmetrically opposite. Poetry’s purpose is to define and transmit affects, to socialize them by inclusion in the ‘Common Affective World’. But because the word has an ...

It is twilight, in the sense  that there is no Day or Night; only the fluttering of wings. Being kissed awake is tender as birth is confusing. There is no separation; only                 the ...

Dr Gail McConnell is an internationally renowned critic of poetry and an award-winning poet whose first collection, The Sun is Open, published by Penned in the Margins (2021) was the winner of the ...