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Julie E. Bloemeke, Guest Blogger October 15-19
Julie E. Bloemeke is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. An Edmund A. Ramsaur fellow, she studied with James Dickey while completing her masters degree at the University of South Carolina. She is…
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The Politics of “Don’t Speak” [by Eleanor Goodman］
As everyone has heard by now, this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan. Nearly any selection would create controversy—from sour grapes to complaints about literary quality to…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in conversation with Kelly Forsythe of Copper Canyon Press
NA: Copper Canyon Press is such a successful independent poetry press. I simply love the fact that Copper Canyon is for poets only. But how do you do it? What makes this press so…
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A Case For Elastic Rhyme by J. Chester Johnson
Let me propose an additional instrument to the array we poets already enjoy at our disposal when we put our poems together. I call it “elastic rhyme,” and I’ve been using it here and…
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Return of The Epic by J. Chester Johnson
We should not suppose this return connotes a literary topography akin to PARADISE LOST, BHAGAVAD GITA of the MAHABHARATA, or THE ILIAD. Of course, we don’t think of ourselves as poets engaged in preserving,…
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Celebrate Rising Russian and American Poets including Heather Christle, Tina Chang, Matthew Yeager
When: Monday, October 15, 2012 at 7pm Where: New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch, The Corner Room, 40th St. & 5th Avenue, (diagonally across from the main building) NYC Cost: Free Description: Carrying forward…
