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Bursting Bamboo Leads to the Bullet Train by Ravi Shankar
Fireworks, like mothers, are loved universally. Ever since the Han Dynasty, everyone from a Wall Street investment banker to a Mongolian yak-herder would stop with a jaw hung in astonishment to see that special…
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July is sestina month!
On Laura L. Barkat's T. S. Poetry Press, which posts poems on a daily basis, July is sestina month, and they are kicking it off with David Lehman's sestina "Operation Memory." Click here and thou shalt see! Other sestina-makers such…
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America Now and Here
Have you heard about "America Now and Here," an unconventional multi-year collaboration among artists determined to encounter America as a concept, a dream, a place, a sound — and to create a dialogue with…
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Infidelities
So the London Review of Books comes in the mail and you turn immediately to the page that would be the inside back flap if the LRB were a book rather than a tabloid-shaped…
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Translated- Sally Ashton
It is impossible to translate; we are always translating: Alone at a café table set on uneasy cobble under some broad-leaved tree, I wait for my lunch and enjoy a breeze. At last. At…
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From King Gesar and the zany Basques to Complaint by Ravi Shankar
Let’s begin with oral poetry, which I ended the last blog post on, because I neglected to note that the cowboy poets have nothing on the Basques who sell tickets in the tens of…
