About

Etcetera wants to show the links between reading and poetic practice. It is a series of brief, personal writing about reading from practicing poets, telling about a few books that they remember, that have been important to them. It wants to ask what poetry new or old a poet has found significant, what theory has been important to them, what fiction, nonfiction, visual art, song, etcetera, also resonates with their work. It wants to put these reflections next to the poet's own work to ask us to think about how reading is metabolized into poems, however obliquely or partially. It wants to picture what is materially proximate to reading, the chair, room, building, or city they sometimes work in, the cup, lamp, or talisman, etcetera. It wants to show networks of practice and reading, to email the poets that have been written about in someone's list to ask them also what they’ve read and go on following those intersecting lines out as far as it can. It wants to help you find something new to read.

Etcetera was founded and edited by Katie Naughton. From October 2024 to September 2025, it is guest edited by M. W. Jaeggle. The journal is made possible by funding from the James H. McNulty Chair of English, the Graduate Poetics Group, and the Graduate Student Association at SUNY-University at Buffalo.