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“… he likes having thought of it so well / he says again…” some things about poetry and ontology but mostly about poetry [by Jake Adam York]
In yesterday’s elliptical post, I was thinking persistently about how reading an anthology, like any one of the Best American Poetry volumes, introduces various crises of knowledge and confidence—how an anthology forces me to…
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Barzun on Maugham: I can’t resist
Though I love Somerset Maugham's fiction and think him lamentably underrated for reasons it would, on another occasion, be interesting to explore, I can't resist this little riff from Jacques Barzun's "Meditations on the…
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That’s Not Poetry (Notes Toward a Post on Poetry and Ontology) [by Jake Adam York]
Once I started to get poems published, my grandmother would ask to see a poem. Always she’d say: That’s not poetry: it doesn’t rhyme. * People say this: Now that’s poetry. Think Crocodile Dundee:…
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“My Least-Favorite Patient or Colleague.” (by Stacey Harwood)
This is going to be fun . . . I heard from my friend Jim Stubenrauch the other day with news of a course he and Joy Jacobson are teaching this summer to graduate…
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Born on the 20th of July
On this day in 1944the poet Paul Violi was born a manwho loved historyand knew that onthe date of his birththe conspirators failedto kill the dictator athis Wolf's Lair headquartersand exactly twenty-fiveyears later a coupleof guys walked on the…
