Publisher’s Weekly wrote up the situation with layoffs at the Poetry Foundation:

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The Foundation is supported by an exceptionally large private endowment and should not be putting people out of work.

These cuts reduce educational programming related to poetry and reviews of new poetry books (esp. small press), both things dear to me as a writer, teacher, and reader.

It’s time to go. Let someone who can lead lead.

it's good to say aloud that "content" is not a synonym for "literature"

www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/meet-...

And an interview with Korean artist Koi and Hyungmee Shin, about their vision for unification, translated and cocreated by Jiyu Seo, aka Vivian.

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

Finally, I can't wait to dive into the interview with poet and translator extraordinaire Boris Dralyuk and the special feature, "What AI Can't Do," edited by our EIC Yew Leong Lee, with human-AI poems by Margento and his partner Raluca Tanasescu, drawn from work previously published in Asymptote.

I'm also grateful for editor Alex Tan's conversation with Egyptian writer and multidisciplinary artist Mohamed Abdelkarim, discussing myth, migration, poetry, and "Fiction's Futurability" in Abdelkarim's writing, film, and more.

www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/ficti...

This may have bene written by AI. In any case, I don’t think the author knows what “humanistic” or “veracity” mean.

ROM!!