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Quote of the Week: The 99-cent Slice
On Monday morning, April 15, with taxes on people's minds — before the bombs went off in Boston — commuters reading the Wall Street Journal got to ponder the implications of the ninety-nine cent…
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With a Poem by Cate Marvin (and a few words about Boston) I start a new phase of The Lion and the Honeycomb [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, I’ve been away so long! Been tending a few other fireplaces, to wit, I’ve got two books coming out in the fall; also changes in husband’s work has given me more time…
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The Punk Singer and The Florist: A conversation between Frankie Rollins and Selah Saterstrom. By Sarah Suzor
From Scene II of Barbara Guest’s play, The Lady’s Choice Christian: You like only myth, And so you would go riding, Greensleeves and all To where love’s hiding. Antoinette: I like…
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A limited, limiting clarity: A conversation between Paul Vangelisti and Standard Schaefer. By Sarah Suzor
From George Oppen’s poem, “Route” (1968): Your elbow on a car-edge Incognito as summer, I wrote. Not you but a girl At least Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in…
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Omnipotent: A conversation between Omnidawn Publishing’s Rusty Morrison and Gillian Hamel. By Sarah Suzor
Umberto Eco, from his collection of essays, On Literature (English translation published in 2004): I have often asked myself: would I still write today if they told me that tomorrow a cosmic catastrophe would…
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It’s National Haiku Day!
Celebrate by entering the Library Hotel's haiku challenge for a chance to win a two-night stay in the hotel's Poetry Room (299 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017). All you have to doto win…
