We've just put up five poems from Crush with more to come. Read and comment on them here. A few words from Louise Glück's Foreword to the book for those unfamiliar with Richard Siken's work: We live in a period of great polarities: in art, in public policy, in morality. In poetry, art seems, at one extreme, [...]

I'm pleased to report that Richard Siken—the Yale Younger Poet whose amazing book Crush was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award a couple of years back—will be participating in this project. We'll be starting with several poems from his book, including "I am Jeff," and move on from there.