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Monday @ KGB: Catherine Barnett & David Lehman
Catherine Barnett is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2004 Whiting Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced,…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Jack Myers
Arf Dogs give commands to me in one syllable, the same one again and again. I speak back in polysyllabics above my one great bark. It's like my dreams falling all night in technicolor…
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Magritte (& Van der Weyden?)
For fifteen points, compare Rene Magritte's 1952 painting "Personal Values" (shown here) with Roger Van der Weyden's fifteenth-century Annunciation. You can cheat by visiting this site and see what Janet Stiles Tyson wrote on…
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Poetry in the dystopia [Katy Evans-Bush]
Photograph by David Secombe, via Esoteric London Hello, Best American Poetry World! I guest-blogged here a couple of years ago and am delighted to be asked back. Last time I spent my week developing…
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Katy Evans-Bush Guest Blogger October 24-30
This week we welcome back Katy Evans-Bush as our guest blogger. Katy s the author of Me and the Dead (Salt, 2008) and a pamphlet, Oscar & Henry (Rack Press, 2010), which traces the interwoven stories of Oscar Wilde…
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This Just In . . . David Lehman, take a bow!
Congratulations go out to David Lehman for being chosen as a winner of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers Deems Taylor Award for A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Nextbook/Schocken). ASCAP…
