Poetry

The inaugural issue of Swimmers, a London-based publishing project uniting poets and artists

From the legacy of Harper Lee to new poetry by Fred Moten: a round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week

Artist Peter Wächtler talked to Walter Swennen about the pitfalls of poetry and painting as an impure practice

On the occasion of ‘I ♥ John Giorno’ in Paris, an interview with John Giorno about poetry, art and radicalism

Labyrinthine associations and elastic meaning in the work of Heather Phillipson

Ida Ekblad talks to Zoe Pilger about painting, drifting, emptiness and energy

An interview with Kenneth Goldsmith

Praised by T.S. Eliot and best friends with Harry Smith, Lionel Ziprin was a mystic and poet whose archive is a source of fascination for many contemporary artists, especially Carol Bove, who now houses it in her New York studio

Approaching sincerity via poetry and art

The role of poetry in the world of appearances

Reading as information control: the poet Tan Lin talks to Sam Thorne

A performative tour of libraries in Nairobi

Gentrification and independent publishing in San Francisco

The intertwined histories of art criticism and poetry

On the occasion of a major retrospective at M HKA in Antwerp, Jimmie Durham talks to Kirsty Bell about enthusiasm, itinerancy, cities, poetry and Cherokee mythology

Artist Jimmie Durham reads a selection of poems from his forthcoming volume Poems That Do Not Go Together (2012)

Jesse Ball is an author, poet, artist and lucid dreaming instructor based in Chicago. Ross Simonini talked to him about his new novel, The Curfew, ‘writing as a performance’, and the importance of both clarity and deception in story-telling

Boo-Hooray & Boo-Hooray c/o Steohen Kasher Gallery

Cathleen Chaffe on frieze's exclusive publication of an artist project by Marcel Broodthaers

We invited frieze contributors to discuss the writers and publications they consider to be the most significant of the last 20 years