Author
Jason Koo
Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award for the best Asian American book of 2009. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Octopus, The Journal, Vinyl Poetry and TMR. The winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he directs the graduate program in English. He lives in Brooklyn. www.jasonkoopoetry.com
CONTRIBUTIONS
Interviews
Oct 08 2013
A Conversation with Dorothea Lasky
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothea Lasky has emerged over the last few years as one of the most important poets of her generation. Her bold, unmistakable voice, both on… read more
Reviews
Jan 06 2012
"That One Was the Oddest One": Weirdness in Contemporary American Poetry
Featuring reviews of:
Dorothea Lasky, Black Life, Wave Books, 2010, 77 pp., $14
Arda Collins, It Is Daylight, Yale University Press, 2009, 93 pp., $16
Jason Bredle, Smiles of the Unstoppable, Magic Helicopter Press, 2011, 55 pp., $11.95
Reviews
Sep 01 2009
In Search of Lost Tone: American Poetry in a Year of Change
Reviewed: Jennifer Chang, The History of Anonymity: Poems Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems Mary Ruefle, The Most of It Sean Hill, Blood Ties & Brown… read more
Interviews
Dec 01 2006
A Conversation with Terrance Hayes
The full text of this interview is currently not available online.
And [Thelonius] Monk says, Man, every time you play you’re rehearsing! And I thought, That’s profound. It’s true, every poem is a rehearsal for the next poem, which is a rehearsal for the next poem. The idea of improvisation, rehearsal, movement, experiment–that’s what I’m interested in as an artist.