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Snow is Falling on the Age of Creative Writing [by John Lane]
I have a 29-year-relationship with AWP. In three decades I’ve probably attended ten or twelve meetings in various regions of the country. Several meetings I’ve forgotten but I know for sure there was one…
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Jackie Clark’s “Aphoria” is here
Brooklyn Arts Press Jackie Clark APHORIA Pub Date: March 1, 2013, 72 pages, $14.95 ISBN-13 :978-1-936767-17-5 Brooklyn Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of Jackie Clark's debut collection of poetry, Aphoria.…
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Encounters with Poets you Won’t Hear Much About this Week at AWP [by John Lane]
At the Robinson Jeffers Conference the keynote started her talk by saying she'd never heard of Robinson Jeffers until she got the invitation to speak. I told them I'd been reading Jeffers since I…
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From Cindy Adams’s mouth to God’s ear
From Cindy Adams's column in today's New York Post (March 5, 2013): <<< And mazel tov to the royals. Her future Majesty Kate's lineage was traced back to Moses. Parents Jewish. Mother descended from…
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Major Retro Move [by John Lane]
Last week I took a side-step or maybe even a step back in my technological rumba with the literary future. I bought a desktop computer again, a brand new 20" iMac, and when it…
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Monday I’ve Got Friday on My Mind: Cocktails and Poetry with Nata Traub
This weeks cocktail is inspired by Senia Hardwick's poem Skyline: Skyline A crooked sky on a Wednesday morning, Still half drunk with fog the sun burnt clouds, and reaching light are all I…