Photos from the April 6 launch party for the new Chicago Review British Poetry Issue. Keston Sutherland, Peter Manson, and Andrea Brady (all featured, with Chris Goode, in the new issue) read at Elastic Arts Space.

Photos from the March 20 Rebirth Brass Band show at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans. Check out Rebirth’s Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf or one of their many other CDs.

Joshua Kotin’s letter to the New York Times Book Review. Kotin mentions Flood Editions, LVNG, Ugly Duckling Presse, Circumference, Atelos, and Hambone. For more poetry that doesn’t require the benefactions of Eli Lilly and S.I. Newhouse, check out Omnidawn, SleepingFish, NO: A Journal of the Arts, and our British friends Barque Press and Object Permanence.