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The Genius of Rats: Advice from a Poet [by Nick Courtright]
Now let’s turn the lens on our own personal folly, and take a visit to psychologists’ and behavioral economists’ Land of Advice. Maybe with some study we can stumble into a few methods that…
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Day Four of Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: “A Sestina”
A Sestina mustbe 39 lines long,lean,fast.Blendedwords are OK, but the wordsmustbe splendid whether short or long.Ride fast,lean forward, lean hard on every word,hold fast to this mustangas long as you can, the endeavor dependson…
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Falling in Love with McDonald’s and Other Absurdities [by Nick Courtright]
One fascinating match-making experiment, and one that can be conducted anywhere with a decent number of people (new enrollees in an MFA program?! or at a particularly bloodless faculty meeting?!), is to affix to…
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Wayfinding John Ashbery: Remarks from an Evening with AshLab [By Nora Brooks]
Last fall, I enrolled in a literature seminar in the New School writing program unlike any literature class I’ve ever taken: the AshLab. The project of the class involved contributing to creative and scholarly…
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The Moorman Symposium: A New Tradition: New York School Poetry and the South
Frank O'Hara exits the Museum of Modern Art in NYC Why bring New York School poetry to the University of Southern Mississippi? Because, in a sense, it’s already here. Named for the New York…
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Day Three of Five Days of Sestinas by Florence Cassen Mayers: “The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Sestina)”
The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Sestina) Reader,you hatesestinas?Readthese. Take a chance:show up, see the show.Gentle reader,give them a chance,redress your hatreds:readno more sestinas if these sestinasfail to showhow rewarding a readthey are. Reluctant reader,although you…
