#lindsay garbutt

[theartofselfdemolition]

“those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.”

//  Charles Bukowski

[chenchenwrites]

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the July/August 2017 issue share some recommendations. So many contributors responded that we divided the list in two. Part II appears next week.

A bouquet of thanks to Lindsay Garbutt for assembling this fabulous installment of The Reading List. I recommended work by the mega-talented Chloe Honum and Jennifer S. Cheng. I discussed how their very different but equally powerful approaches to the prose poem have inspired/challenged me to write better. And lately, I’ve just been obsessed with prose poems. 

Big thanks also to Oliver de la Paz, another contributor, who had the following to say about my collection: 

I’m spending the summer trying to fill up with words and right now Chen Chen’s book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities is knocking me out with its audacity, its humor, and its overall generosity of spirit. It’s a very ecstatic book working in ways that I don’t as a writer, so I’m learning a great deal.

[kavehakbar]

"What I started to feel about Kaveh’s work here is that it resembles a little bit what we would have hoped for from John Berryman if his much to be hoped for recovery had happened." - Don Share

Hear this, possibly the most generous sentence ever uttered about my work, and other impossibly kind and wise sentences about my poem and poems by Carolyn Forché and Victoria Chang, on this new episode of the Poetry Magazine Podcast. 

[poetryfoundation]

A glimpse into the Poetry Foundation’s first Brooklyn Book Festival! We had such a good time meeting Brooklyn readers and talking poetry at our festival table. We love knowing that POETRY totes are roaming the Brooklyn streets. 

We were also thrilled to host POETRY contributor Jenny Zhang at a Bookend event at Baby’s All Right. After her beautiful reading, Jenny was interviewed by POETRY associate editor Lindsay Garbutt. New York legend, DJ Justine D. followed the talk. Till next year, Brooklyn! 

Thanks to Butcher Walsh for the event pics!