"MFA vs. NYC"

Chad Harbach's detailed analysis of America's two literary cultures, that of the MFA programme and that of the New York publishing industry, makes for interesting and at times disconcerting reading.

"As It Stands: Innovation, the Post-Avant, and Current Publishing Practices"

This interesting overview of the situation of other poetries in the UK comes from Amy De'Ath.

Free Verse Journal Roundtable on the State of Poetry Publishing

US-based online magazine Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics has published an interesting "roundtable" on "poetry publishing in the new millennium" with interviews from editors of Copper Canyon Press, Shearsman Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, and the Phoenix Poets series at University of Chicago Press. Take a look.

Adventures in Publishing, or Current Issues

I had a bit of surprise in the post today. A year ago I sent some poems to Poetry Ireland Review, where, under the editorship of Peter Sirr, I had appeared a few times before. Six months later with no response, I queried via email, figuring that the transition to new editor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin had caused the delay; but I received no reply. Today I found in my post the new issue, 94, and therein my poem, "The Meal." While I was delighted, I would have enjoyed the pleasure longer with an acceptance letter and/or a proof, as with past acceptances from PIR. But perhaps I'm being fussy.

Along with Poetry Ireland Review, my poems appear in the current issues of Poetry Wales and The Rialto. In the US, there are two poems in the current issue of Boston journal, Salamander, and one in Orange Coast Review. Reviews are in current issues of Poetry Wales and The Warwick Review, and one is forthcoming in TLS.

In the UK, poems are forthcoming in New Welsh Review, Shearsman, Stand, and The Warwick Review, and in the US, in Court Green and Cannot Exist.

Forthcoming Readings, Classes and Talks

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20 February 2010, "Publishing Your Poetry," The Poetry School, Bath

13 March 2010, "Publishing Your Poetry," The Poetry School, Manchester

NB: Readings for The Tethers will be listed only on that page.