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Marie Ponsot Named NYC Literary Legend [by Catherine Woodard]
In the New York Botanical Garden in November, Marie Ponsot paused in front of a towering tree. She recalled as a little girl she delighted her mother with the observation that trees are just like…
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NaPoWriMo Poems Day #26: Home Stretch!
Now you’re really in the home stretch of NaPoWriMo, scribblers! If this was a marathon, you’d be peeing blood by now. Today’s prompt, an elegy, which reminds me: I especially love, “Blue looked at…
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This Just In: Call for Submissions – The Poet’s Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Sprirtuality
Poet, editor and publisher Todd Swift writes to us from London with this call for submissions: Eyewear Publishing is looking for new, mostly previously-unpublished poems, written in English, concerned with spiritual issues in this…
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This Be The Poet: PSA Celebrates the Poetry of Philip Larkin by Madge McKeithen
“The poem kept pushing back at me, challenging me.” Thomas Sayers Ellis was speaking about “Money,” the poem that he had just read at Tuesday night’s celebration of the work of Philip…
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David Grubin’s “Downtown Express” [by David Lehman]
Sasha, a brilliant young Russian violinist, needs a visa to stay in New York. He gets a fellowship to study at Juilliard and he's good, but his domineering father, a cellist from the old…
