Appeal for arrested Iranian writers
Today is World Refugee Day, and thoughts turn to regimes that imprison their writers, forcing others into exile. Iran is one such regime, and PEN last week launched an appeal on… Read more »
In response to hedge fund support of T.S. Eliot prize, John Kinsella issues manifesto on poetry as activism
Poet John Kinsella published a rousing manifesto of poetry as activism in the New Statesman yesterday. He recently pulled out of the T.S. Eliot prize, days after Alice Oswald also renounced her… Read more »
Occupy Ashtabula, Ohio?
If you’re not from Ohio or western Pennsylvania then chances are you’ve never heard of Ashtabula. Other than a passing mention in Jack Kerouac’s The Road and Bob Dylan’s “You’re… Read more »