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Why do we need a national poetry month? (and other questions)
Read this interview with Beth Harrison, acting director of the Academy of American Poets, on "poem in your pocket day" (April 26), movies and poetry, and much else, from the current issue of Guernica.…
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Read “Revolutionary Road” (by David Lehman)
<<<For many years I had neglected this novel in spite of its sterling reputation simply because I misconstrued the title and thought the book had something to do with radical politics in the 1960s.…
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Conversation with Philip Levine: On growing up Jewish in Detroit, playing tennis in verse, and hanging on to his memories
Philip Levine. (Geoffrey Berliner, courtesy Library of Congress) This year, 83-year-old Philip Levine, poet of the working class, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. Tablet book critic Adam Kirsch once pointedly noted…
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“Before poems and prayers, there were spells and charms . . .” Poets on the art of basketball [by Catherine Woodard]
“April is the cruellest month,” for a basketball fan. No more college March Madness until next year. Not until May will the NBA playoffs get serious or the WNBA season begin. To continue the…
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“For Adolf Eichmann” by Primo Levi
The wind runs free across our plains, The live sea beats for ever at our beaches. Man makes earth fertile, earth gives him flowers and fruits. He lives in toil and joy; he hopes,…
