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First Book Review: Leah Umansky’s Domestic Uncertainties
In Leah Umansky's beautifully written and poignant first book, Domestic Uncertainties, readers will find failed courtships, nineteenth century novels left in ruins, and the "nomenclature for what is left." Presented as an extended sequence…
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“And I will know each trembling of a leaf”: John Ashbery’s Translations from the French [by David Lehman]
Just as the sheer quantity of John Ashbery's literary criticism surprised even the poet's fans (see his Selected Prose, 2007), so too the poet's translations from the French: they fill two volumes, one devoted…
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Tonight at KGB: David Lehman + Mary Jo Salter
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Mary Jo Salter + David Lehman Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman…
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Book Preview: Richard Siken’s War of the Foxes [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His…
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Kristina Marie Darling Guest Author February 24-28
This week we welcome Kristina Marie Darling as our guest author. Kristina is the author of seventeen books, which include Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), Petrarchan (BlazeVOX Books, 2013), and a forthcoming hybrid…
