Crush is Up

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, [...]

Poetry Launch

We want poetry to be a big part of this. Louise Glück, the current editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, has said that Jay Hopler's book is "filled with tardy recognitions and insights. Always we sense, beneath the surface of even the most raucous poems, impending crisis: the terrifying onset of that life long [...]

First things

We plan on starting with two very different projects—a networked version of Jonathan Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It and A New Book of Common Days, a selection of poetry from Jay Hopler, a recent Yale Younger Poet. By placing Jonathan Zittrain's book on the CommentPress platform, we really hope [...]