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A Modest Proposal for Poets
There seems to be a trend and maybe it will hit the tipping point and something good will happen for the poets out there bouncing from one adjunct position to another, getting by without…
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New School MFAs Go Places: Justin Sherwood, MFA ’12, in Conversation with Academy of American Poets Executive Director Jen Benka, MFA ’07
By the time she arrived at The New School, Jen Benka, MFA '07, had five years of experience as Managing Director of Poets & Writers, and a published book of poetry, A Box of…
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Words that do work: Creating The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival [by Lise Menn]
(Ed note: Today we begin a monthly series of posts by the editors and contributors to The Widow's Handbook, which we first learned about when Bruce Kawin joined us a guest author. The first…
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February 20: It’s the Shape of a Tulip [by Julia Cohen]
“What I have been thinking about, lately, is bewilderment as a way of entering the day as much as the work. Bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics…. It cracks open the dialectic and…
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February 19th: The Transpersonal Warrior [Julia Cohen]
In a house of so many first-floor windows, I was afraid someone was outside looking in. When I went upstairs at night, I would run past the foyer windows as fast as I could.…
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Posing Questions to the Universe by Tony Leuzzi in The Brooklyn Rail
From the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail comes this review of David Lehman's New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013): In his redoubtable essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot wrote, “No…
