Poetry

Tongo Eisen-Martin is today’s leading revolutionary poet. Here, he speaks about the evils of San Francisco, Black liberation, and John Coltrane.

 Edouard Manet, Bouquet de Violettes,  1872 as seen on the cover of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal  

Edouard Manet, Bouquet de Violettes, 1872 as seen on the cover of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857

A Summer Chronicle, part 6: Poetry may be dead, but the confession reigns. NATASHA STAGG on the power of erratic tell-alls.

Spike brought together American poets and friends CAConrad and Ariana Reines to talk about the relationship between ritual and writing. A conversation about the bones of poetry