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Poetweet as Form: An Interview with Twitter poet Margaret Ingraham by Julie E. Bloemeke
Today an interview with Twitter poet Margaret Ingraham–@InPoetweet–who began the InPoetweet project in February, 2012. Can you give us a brief synopsis of the InPoetweet project? Absolutely. I am committed to composing and posting…
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Building Bridges: Young American and Russian Poets Share Stage and Verse (by Madge McKeithen)
From left to right: David Lehman (moderator), Russian poets Alla Gorbunova, Dina Gatina, Lev Oborin, American poets Heather Christle, Tina Chang, Matthew Yeager. David Lehman’s scintillating introduction to Monday night’s reading of poetry by…
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Going Out Talking—Remembering John McCarthy (Terence Winch)
Left: Doug Lang, Myron Bretholz, John McCarthy, Terence Winch, Beth Rake, Bernard Welt, Becky Levenson, Susan Campbell, late 1970s, 1920 S St NW, DC Nine years ago this month, I…
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The Latest on the Land of Homer and Plato
Our travel correspondent, an inveterate traveler to an antique land, files this report on developments in Greece: <<< Travelers who believe that flying a foreign country's national airline reduces the likelihood of encountering terrorism…
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The Drapes of Wrath [from Susan Sontag’s Journals]
<<< Lizzie [Hardwick]: "Well, it's curtains for him, or, as my students would say, drapes." >>> from entry for 11/ 2 / 79 NYC Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals &…
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An Evening of Poetry from Russia and the United States
Last night, in the Corner Room of the New York Public Library's Mid-Manhattan Branch (40th Street and Fifth Avenue), an attentive audience was wowed by poems from Russia (with translations read by John Narins)…
