The University of Alabama Press Two new books in the Modern and Contemporary Poetry Series 40% Discount on Newest MCP Titles Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture edited by Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller retail price: $39.95 paper |...

In Scribe, his seventh book of poetry, published this fall, Norman Finkelstein (the poet, not the Israel critic) works the contradictions of being a Jew. He is simultaneously secular and religious, stately and conversational, prophetic, and...

Fascinating debate on Monday night, in my Modern Poetry class, over how to read a short poem from Judy Grahn's "She Who" sequence (1971-72). Grahn's a lesbian feminist poet, and this sequence is a wonderful mix of theological, political, and...

Another bout of arrant self-promotion. I've now got a regular column on poetry at Tablet (the journal formerly known as Nextbook).  My first shot--on why poetry is less difficult and more fun than people might think--went up today at...