Someone I respect recently posted that a survey of poetry blogs revealed they were dead. No exciting critical thought. All hussle. Well, the universe sent me a cop-out in the form of an off-hand Samuel Delany comment (his best comments always are) when in his… Read More
A poem from Fugue & Strike got quoted in Alex Skopic’s Current Affairs article, “How To Write A Good Political Poem.” An important question & one, imo, that has to account for the many deeply entrenched norms and networks of reception that depoliticize political poetry,… Read More
There are a lot of poets I love and have met along the way in this THICK issue of Oversound. It features a long poem of mine, “Ekpyrosis, The Watershed” (pictures are excerpts, a few of the 9 pages). It’s about the grind, the purgatory… Read More
JOE HALL 