There are eight different common types of coffee and eight different types of poems.
Read MoreCongratulations to Andre Gerard of Vancouver, British Columbia, the winner of the inaugural Berfrois Poetry Prize!
Read MoreThe qualifying poem by each of these finalists will be published at Berfrois in the coming two weeks. Each finalist has submitted four more poems to Berfrois, and the winner of the 2015 Berfrois Poetry Prize will be selected on the basis of the finalists’ five-poem portfolios.
Read MoreHangeth with yellow pears
And full of wild roses
The land in the lake
Poems by Russell Bennetts, Daniel Bosch, Andrea Cohen, Tom Daley, Katie Degentesh, Leontia Flynn, Benjamin Friedlander, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, Kirsten Kaschock, Rauan Klassnik, Daisy Lafarge, DW Lichtenberg, Sharon Mesmer, Teresa K. Miller, K. Silem Mohammad, Jess Mynes, Lance Newman, R.M. O’Brien, Eirikur Örn Norŏdahl, Joseph Spece, Ken Taylor and Laura A. Warman. Version 1.0…
Read MoreBetween now and 11:59:59 pm GMT on Sunday December 31, 2014, poets may submit to Berfrois, using its online submission manager, a single, original, poem in English which is not a translation, but may be in any mode or form, up to 300 lines.
Read MoreCold hypocrites, speak not of the Gods!
You think! You do not believe in Helios,
Nor the Thunderer, nor Poseidon!
Or: An Experiment in Behavior Modification. There is an old saying in Camden Town: If you give BERFROIS fish and chips, it’ll eat fish and chips and read the paper it came wrapped in. But if you teach BERFROIS to fish and chips, it’ll eat fish and chips and read and write a lot of…
Read MoreForewarned is forearmed. Over a century ago, Sigmund Freud embarked upon an extended exploration of totem, taboo, and obsessional neurosis. Though he made extensive use of ethnographic and folkloric material as foils for his analyses of anxiety disorders prevalent among contemporary Viennese, at the outset of Totem and Taboo, Freud exhorted his fellow scientists to take care, for
Read MoreBusy Pangur is not
These chambers’ only predator,
Sharing them as he must
With another editor.
Sometimes you try for the pearl—
and get clay.
Without luck, brother,
your field gets swept away!
Introduction by Daniel Bosch On the occasion of his mother’s eightieth birthday, Dante Gabriel Rossetti gave her a hand-made artwork featuring his poem “The Sonnet.” In the first line of this present he also gave to English poetry a “deathless” (because almost irrefutable) definition of the sonnet form — though the rest of the poem…
Read MoreThree of America’s most famous poets announced today the immediate availability of new, moderately priced “diffusion lines” based on their celebrated high-end works to be sold online and at mainstream retail outlets such as Walmart, Costco, Sam’s, Target, and Barnes & Noble.
Read MoreIntroduction by Daniel Bosch In his too little-known poem, “Strange Type,”novelist Malcolm Lowry’s speaker bemoans a writer’s subjection to the vagaries of printing: I wrote: in the dark cavern of our birth. The printer had it tavern, which seems better: But herein lies the subject of our mirth, Since on the next page death appears…
Read MoreDan Gluibizzi, Untitled (watercolor, 30 x 22, 2010) by Daniel Bosch Twenty-three brunettes, 10 puffs of pubic hair, nine pairs of panties, two t-shirts, two socks, one tank-top, one bra, one bottle, and one bowling ball—though I suppose it could be a basketball, a medicine ball, or a soccer ball. Twenty legs amputated by the…
Read MoreOf the game n+7, or, in French, s+7, even Queneau himself said, “The results are not
always very interesting… It seems that only good texts give good results.”
The Lego Movie, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014 From The Fortnightly Review: SCENE: THE TORCH-LIT office-hewn-from-rock of Skepticus, the principal chamber of his retreat, high above the city. A long work table, strewn with papers, books, scrolls, pens, pencils, and quills; at its center, a laptop computer sits open. At left of the computer, a small…
Read MoreIntroduction by Daniel Bosch Jennifer Clarvoe’s little black book Counter-Amores(University of Chicago Press, 2011) closes with a suite of poems each of which is a reversal of one of Ovid’s Amores — his frank and delightful guides to beds and breakfasts along the Tiber. Clarvoe’s poems reincarnate the sense that Robert Frost made when…
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