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Next Line, Please: Help the American Scholar Write a Sonnet
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a Shakespearean sonnet. David Lehman supplied the first line and picks subsequent lines from reader submissions. Click…
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Meat the Poet: Jennifer Tamayo [by Jennifer L. Knox]
Above: JT's "IM ALL ARMS IM ALL IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM ALL ARMS IM…
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Is That Your Final Answer? [by Charles Coe]
Whenever I start to worry that the human race is becoming too intelligent, I take a day off from work to camp out on the sofa and check out some daytime television. I especially…
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A Portrait in Ellipses: Russell Edson, 1935–2014 [by Jennifer L. Knox]
A little pink rabbit’s munching on grass. Everything seems nearly normal, except for the fact that the rabbit’s pink. But it’s a pink you can live with—almost a coral if you want to get…
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This Monday at KGB: Mark Bibbins + Lucie Brock-Broido + Season Finale Party
Mark Bibbins + Lucie Brock-Broido + Season Finale Party Monday, May 12, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors open at 7:00…