New to the Archive

The Poetry Foundation’s online archive of poetry is ever expanding. Here’s a look at some recent additions you may have missed over the last few months:

Orlando White, who will be joining us as November’s featured blogger at Harriet, published his second book, Letterrs (Nightboat Books), earlier this year and we have three poems from it: “Block Cipher,” “Cephalic,” and, finally, “Finis.” Take a minute to meet your new favorite blogger.

Last week we saw a tremendous performance by Elaine Kahn here at the Poetry Foundation, and leading up to the event we added three poems from Women in Public (City Lights Books).

This weekend we’ll host several events in conjunction with the Chicago Humanities Festival. In preparation, here are a few poems from Rae Armantrout’s most recent collection (this one seems especially relevant, given the date of the event), and two selections from Claudia Rankine’s groundbreaking Citizen (Graywolf Press), including one which originally appeared in Poetry magazine. Also joining us this weekend is our Young People’s Poet Laureate, Jacqueline Woodson. We’re thrilled to offer a generous selection of her poetry here.

Juliana Spahr was previously missing from the archive, but we looked to fix that with large sections from both her second book Response (Sun & Moon) and her most recent title That Winter The Wolf Came (Commune Editions). We also got up-to-date with poems spanning several books from Camille Dungy and Dorianne Laux.

In publishers-named-after-animals news, we added two poems from Terrance Hayes’s How to Be Drawn (Penguin), three from Monica McClure’s Tender Data (Birds, LLC), and selections from Ben Fama's Fantasy and Corina Copp's The Green Ray, both from their Ugly Duckling Presse collections. And lest you think we deal only with the feathered, there are three poems from the major Collected Poems of Tory Dent (The Sheep Meadow Press), and new additions by a handful of Graywolf Press authors, including Mary Jo Bang, Tony Hoagland, Katie Ford, and Nick Flynn.

Finally, in the new-to-us category, we have four poems from the great Joe Brainard. May we suggest you memorize “30 One-Liners” to use in case you get caught up in any ghoulishly dull conversations this weekend?