In lieu of orig­i­nal thought, a few items of pos­si­ble interest:

+ John Conroy is back! But he’s on WBEZ now instead of writ­ing for the Chicago Reader. (This is not exactly news, but a story today–not up yet on the WBEZ web­site–reminded me to men­tion it.)

+ Emily Wilson (the clas­si­cist, not the poet) reviews John Tipton’s Ajax: “He suc­ceeds bril­liantly at cre­at­ing a living, con­tem­po­rary Sopho­cles. His ver­sion is a chill­ing mirror.” (The original’s in The Nation, but trapped behind a paywall.)

+ Marty Riker inter­views the Flood fel­lows: “Just for the record, I was not, in fact, an angry young man. Con­fused and obnox­ious, but not really angry.”

+ Auf­gabe’s edi­tors undo “Numbers Trouble”: “Should we be thank­ful or irri­tated that the draft is gendered?”

+ Danielle Allen speaks for her­self on the Obama Muslim smear: “Worse than mud.”

+ Kent John­son is still not sure about “A True Account of Talk­ing to the Sun at Fire Island”: “‘It is a real mys­tery, that poem.’”

This 272-page double issue includes:

LISA ROBERT­SON SPE­CIAL FEATURE

With two long poems, two essays, an inter­view by Kai Fierle-​Hedrick, a check­list, and crit­i­cal essays by Ben­jamin Fried­lan­der, Chris­tine Stew­art, Jen­nifer Scap­pet­tone, and Joshua Clover.

POEMS

Stephen Collis, Ros­marie Wal­drop, Rusty Mor­ri­son, Genya Tur­ovskaya, Karen Weiser, Jacque­line Waters, Cesar Vallejo, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gnoetry & Eric P. Elsh­tain, Peter Gizzi, Michael Kindel­lan, and John Matthias

FIC­TION

Pamela Lu

ESSAYS

Stephen Rode­fer, Calvin Bedi­ent, and Eliot Weinberger

REVIEWS
Tim­o­thy Yu on the Future of Asian Amer­i­can Poetry, Norman Finkel­stein on Donald Revell, Dustin Simp­son on For­rest Gander, Leila Wilson on Eleni Sike­lianos, Ihor Junyk on Hannah Krall, Martin Riker on Patrick Oured­nik, Paul Mer­chant on Alan Halsey, and V. Joshua Adams on Bin Ramke.

A NOTE on Gnoetry and the period style.

Order it here.