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Changing Light: James Merrill, Ships’ Logs, and Shifts in Public Writing (by Leslie McGrath)
A few weeks ago, I ran a writing workshop at the James Merrill House with novelist and current Merrill writer-in-residence Jedidiah Berry (The Manual of Detection) and my husband Bill, a boat builder well-known…
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Good-bye, Phoebe Snow (1950-2011)
Here she is live in 1989: and this fabulous 1979 duet with Linda Ronstadt from “Saturday Night Live.”
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Stand and Deliver: Reviving the Art of the Recitation (by Leslie McGrath)
Like many American poets, I teach literature and creative writing at a university part time. This semester, along with a poetry writing course, I’ve been teaching Introduction to Poetry to thirty undergraduates, most of…
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Why I Can’t Be A Beatnik Poet (by Laura Orem)
Okay, I can't take credit for finding this – thanks to Don Share for posting it first. From the 1958 teenybopper drama, High School Confidential! Recognize the guy playing the piano? Jackie Coogan (Uncle…
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The Light of the World, by Gerrit Henry
(David encouraged me to read Gerrit Henry's The Time of the Night. I wish I had discovered this poem in time to post yesterday, but it is still worth reading. The book is everything…
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Praise for Gerrit Henry [by David Lehman]
Rarely reliable are the blurbs on the back of a book. Gerrit Henry's posthumous Time of the Night (Groundwater Press) is the exception that proves that this poet rules. I know, I know; I…
