Poetry without Walls
Volume 31, Number 3
March-April 2010
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Kyle Schlesinger’s Introduction to Focus: Poetry without Walls
Thom Donovan’s Three Contemporary Activist Presses
Rob Halpern reviews Michael Cross’s In Felt Treeling
Gregg Biglieri reviews Alan Bernheimer’s The Spoonlight Institute
Miles Champion reviews Tom Raworth’s There Are Few People Who Put On Any Clothes (starring it)
Michael Gizzi reviews Miles Champion‘s Eventually
William Corbett reviews Michael Gizzi’s New Depths of Deadpan
Alan Davies reviews Kit Robinson Train I Ride
Kit Robinson reviews Anne Tardos I Am You
Elizabeth Fodaski reviews Michael Gottlieb’s Memoir and Essay
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