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From the KGB Files . . .
Meghan O'Rourke and Ada Limón read from forthcoming books at KGB on Monday. Here are some highlights: Join us on Monday, April 5th to hear Michael Gizzi and Keith Waldrop!
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So That’s How it Should Sound!
Hearing trained actors read poetry is a great pleasure. Actors approach the poems as scripts, and understand how to deliver the lines so that even if they don't make logical sense, they sound beautiful. …
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Other Flowers by James Schuyler (Review by Adam Fitzgerald)
Few poets of the last half of the 20th century were so unembarrassedly Keatsian as the flower-doting, texture-interrogating, word-tasting James Schuyler. Compared with Barbara Guest, Schuyler’s flora and fauna feel less hypothetical and cerebral.…
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More Bears (by Laura Orem)
I'm still on the bear kick. I'm even going to teach a class in the fall called "The Literary Bear." So I share this lovely poem with you today, the others "who make fires…
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“Poetry of the Law” [by Kathleen Heil]
Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present, the first serious anthology of law-related poetry in the United States, has just been published by The University of Iowa Press. Edited by Michael Stanford,…
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Hudson house, second floor landing [by Karin Roffman]
For today’s blog on objects from Ashbery’s Hudson house, I thought I’d walk down the attic steps to the second floor landing. The landing is large. All the rooms on the second floor have…
