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Introducing Ma Yongbo Poet Ma Yongbo was born in 1964 in Heilongjiang Province, China. As a poet, he is representative of Chinese avant-garde poetry. He is also a leading scholar in Anglo-American postmodernist poetry. Since 1986 Ma has published over eighty ..read more

In Conversation with Maureen Owen (originally posted in Parole in 2016, updated, edited for length and clarity) American poet, editor, and publisher Maureen Owen was born in Minnesota in 1943 and grew up on the racetrack circuit in California where her parents ..read more

Interview with Pat Nolan conducted by Michalis Limnios in September of 2013, and originally posted on Blues.Gr as Pat Nolan: Nualláin Roadhouse Blues [updated, and edited for length and clarity] Pat Nolan, born in Montreal, Canada in 1943, has lived ..read more

Joe Safdie, Poetry And Heresy (Mad Hat Press, 2024) & Greek To Me (Chax Press, 2024) What’s great about Joe Safdie’s collection of essay and lectures, Poetry And Heresy, apart from the range of topics addressed, is that they come ..read more

Kenneth Rexroth, Assays, New Directions, 1961Rereading Kenneth Rexroth’s Assays, borrowed from a friend’s library, and remembering the original encounter with those lectures and essays some fifty plus years ago, and the unique perspective they provided to a fledgling autodidact, the ..read more

Adventures In Poetry Published between 1968 and 1975, Adventures in Poetry was a mimeographed poetry magazine edited by poet Larry Fagin, printed and assembled at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, NYC. Featured in its pages is writing by many poets associated with the ..read more

—Notice To The Membership & Interested Parties— The Society would direct your attention to the menu bar above. Conditions of Parole have been revised to reflect new guidelines for submissions. Note as well new menu categories have been added to facilitate a more direct access to posts by specific as well as general subject matter. Number 2 —FEATURE— The Hollo-Graphic Universe The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo Read More —BBQ SPECIAL— Consistency: Italo Calvino’s Sixth Memo Andrei Codrescu Read More —FEATURED— Out Of Affrilachia To Emit Teal & Second Stop Is Jupiter Upfromsumdirt Re ..read more

Modernity focuses on the ephemeral and the ambiguous originating in the marginal and the exotic (erotic). —Roberto Colasso, La Folie Baudelaire The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo, edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman and Yasamin Ghiasi, with a Preface by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo. Coffee House Press. Anselm Hollo was born in Finland in 1934 to a literate family, heir of a scholar culture. His early education was classical, in the old world sense, and he became fluent in several language. In his twenties, he landed in London working for the BBC. He connected with a group of British experimental poets w ..read more

Upfromsumdirt, To Emit Teal, Broadstone Press, 2020 & The Second Stop Is Jupiter, Wayne State University Press, 2023 “if madness is flame then let us spin flesh upon it” —Upfromsumdirt The path to the discovery of a new poet, a new voice, used to rely on recommendations from someone of like mind or a chance encounter in the poetry section of the library or a bookstore. Now social media is jammed with suggested reading, for the better or worse, and the scroller is inundated by streams of peer self-promotion. However, when panning for literary gold, the shinier, heavier objects have a tenden ..read more