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Fortune and Other Tellers [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, How are you? Are the muses of autumn whispering in your ears? Or have they entered your blameless mind and turned to furies? The world is full of worry. Why not us?…
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A Call for Poetry Citizenship And a Dust Up Over Reading Fees—Jason Schneiderman
A minor blogosphere dust-up over reading fees has made me think a lot about the economy of money and attention—particularly as it relates to poetry. The blog battle went something like this—The New…
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IT’S HERE!! IT’S THE OFFICIAL PUB DATE OF STRIKING SURFACE! -Jason Schneiderman
It's official! Striking Surface is out!! Thank you to Ashland Poetry Press for publishing it! Thank you to Sarah Wells & Stephen Haven for being amazing editors and managers. Thank you to Elton Glaser…
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This morning we peed in a Bob Evans; this evening we read serious literature in a university library. (Shanna Compton)
Ed note: This is the first installment of the bloof books' road trip blog. Check back often for updates. Details here. Last night Muncie, Indiana; tonight, Nashville, TN.– sdh We've come a long way, baby.…
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Eliot’s Message in a Bottle (by David Yezzi)
My squib today is about the epigraph to The Waste Land, which I had forgotten refers to the Sybil of Cumae, about whom more below. I’ve read the epigraph (and its translation) many times…
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Death & the Economy of Attention: Tribute to Barbara Brackney- Jason Schneiderman
The morning that August Wilson died, I was teaching Joe Turner’s Come and Gone to undergraduates. None of my students had heard about Wilson’s death, and when I mentioned it to them, I…
