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David Lehman Interview up on “Hot Street”
Take your vitamins, drink plenty of fluids, and be patient with those who make legitimate demands on your time. “Be to their virtues very kind, be to their faults a little blind.” Read the…
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“Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this . . .”
It was warm inside the bakery. Howard stood up from the table and took off his coat. He helped Ann from her coat. The baker looked at them for a minute and then…
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Tomás Q. Morín, Guest Blogger December 17-21
This week we welcome Tomás Q. Morín as our guest blogger. Tomás is the winner of the 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his collection A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of…
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I Be Monsters [by Tomás Q. Morin]
When I was an undergraduate with limitless energy and cranking out poems left and right for my workshop classes, all I wrote about was my family. There were poems about everything from my grandfather’s…
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Jake Adam York (1972 – 2012)
We mourn the loss of Jake Adam York, who died suddenly today. Jake was 40. Too too young. He was a kind generous talented poet and a good man. His death comes as a…
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The Year in Review: “Famous Blue Raincoat” by Lawrence Epstein (May 24, 2012)
Were the haunting, breathtaking, painful lyrics of “Famous Blue Raincoat” written by almost any other songwriter besides Leonard Cohen, there would be no question about the song’s meaning. It appears to a straightforward confessional…
