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Harold Bloom: Born to Teach [by David Lehman]
Word of Harold Bloom's forthcoming book — on the King James Version, 500 years old in 2011 and still the best of Bibles – excites this reader as a volume from no other contemporary…
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Roger Sedarat, Guest Blogger August 21 – 27
This week we welcome Roger Sedarat as our guest blogger. Roger is the author of two poetry collections, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP’s 2007 Hollis Summers’ Prize (David Lehman,…
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“Lil’ Wayne Writes Ghazals”–A 21st Century Introduction to a Classical Persian Form
“Lil’ Wayne writes ghazals.” This from Program Coordinator and poet Reynold Martin to the amazing group of teens doing spoken word (and so much more) at Urban Word as he introduced the workshop I…
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Legacy: The Marvelous Arithmetics of the Beautiful Needful Thing: by R. Erica Doyle
On this, the last day of my blogging here, I close at the open (hats off for recognizing my paraphrase): You have enabled yourself to prove of incalculable aid to many, many women—not…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews John Lane of the Hub City Writers Project
(photo (c) Les Butchart) Ed note: John Lane is a naturalist, author, professor of Environmental Literature and Creative Writing at Wofford College, and co-founder of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina…
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At Play in the Syllabic Fields of Alterity: Tamiko Beyer and Susana Baca: R. Erica Doyle
Tamiko Beyer is one of those poets I like to stalk. And she is highly stalkable, appearing here and there, now in an anthology I’m judging, now at a conference, now participating in, organizing,…
