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Sunday Quiz: Who Didn’t Win?
Looking over the history of the Academy Awards for best original song in a movie, you notice how many great songs won between "The Continental" and "The Shadow of Your Smile," before the great…
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Rebecca Lindenberg, Guest Blogger March 27-April 2
This week we welcome Rebecca Lindenberg as our guest blogger. Rebecca's first poetry collection, GLOSS, is forthcoming in 2012 from the new McSweeney's poetry series. She is the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment of the…
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“Darling, Would You Please Pick Up Those Books?” [by Kathryn Maris]
How many times do I have to sayget rid of the books off the goddamn floordo you have any idea how it feelsto step over books you wrote about herbloody hell you sadist what…
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Heartfelt Felicitations, David Wagoner
on the occasion of his receiving the American Academy of Arts and Letters Arthur Rense Prize given every three years to a "poet of consistent excellence over a long career." David edited the superb…
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She Heaps Up, by Amy Holman
Today, I set my torch aglow on my hillfort, but not in warning to the next guest blogger, rather to signal welcome to this fine community before I go off to forage. I have…
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Notes on Being A Trapped Animal, by Amy Holman
In the twelfth grade when I felt trapped by other girls, school, shyness, New Jersey, and being seventeen, there was at least some poetry. I could write it, sort of, and I could read…
