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Elizabeth Walters in Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Vijay Seshadri Part II
(Ed. note: This is Part II of a three-part interview with Vijay Seshadri. Go here for Part I. sdh) EW. You write in…
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Braving Storms: John Foy on “Storm Fear”
(Ed note: Earlier this month, our friends over at Ideasmyth ran a series post by poet John Foy. His theme was "braving storms" and the posts were so good we're going to share them…
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Next Line, Please: Help the American Scholar Write a Sonnet
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar will launch a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a Shakespearean sonnet. Our own David Lehman, the series editor for The Best American Poetry volumes,…
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David “Shades” Kirby and David “the Hat” Lehman keep Hattiesburg, Miss. safe during Moorman Symposium
David "Shades" Kirby (center), working security, gives the all-clear for crime boss David "the Hat" Lehman. Also pictured, L to R: Stacey Harwood, Fae "the Doc" Dremock, and Tom Holmes. (Photo credit: Billy…
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Elizabeth Walters in Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection 3 Sections (Graywolf Press, 2013), recently took time away from a schedule full of teaching and fielding media requests to respond…