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Sentences of Summer: Barzun on “the spy”
Jacques Barzun, the legendary Columbia professor, teamed with Lionel Trilling to teach the college's famous "colloqiuim on important books" that met on Wednesday evenings. It was an honors seminar, limited to a dozen seniors,…
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PW loves BAP 2011 and why the hell not
The Best American Poetry 2011 is reviewed in this week's issue of Publishers Weekly, and that's good news not only because the review is noteworthy and quote-worthy but because there's no surer sign that finished…
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I Am The I Watching the I Lift: Psychic Interview of Dawn Lundy Martin with Ganesh and Ghani Lacunae: R. Erica Doyle
"I don’t know if I’m yet awake, as you say," writes Dawn. "Awakened to what? Awakened, perhaps, to distrust? Maybe I’m anxious from pumping my system with chemicals and caffeine (Red Bull). Maybe, I’m…
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Stylist.UK Names 50 of Poetry’s Most Poignant Lines
Click on the image above or here to check it out! Five over, eight down, among Coleridge, Auden, Yeats, is David Lehman. Yessss! — sdh
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Congratulations to You, Amy Lawless
Congratulations go to you Amy Lawlessfor in character and wit you are flawless and you prove that rhyme is logicalit is logical to rhyme sad with glad though you don't use rhyme in your…
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Forgive Me Then the Avarice: A Psychic Interview with Ronaldo V. Wilson: R. Erica Doyle
My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. —Emily Dickinson I met Ronaldo in 1998 at a monastery in upstate New York. Everyone still smoked then, and we spent…
