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On Surprise (by Malachi Black)
Before I launch into my final post of the week, I’d like to reiterate my sincere thanks to Stacey and David for inviting me to guest-blog. It’s not often that I’m given the chance…
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On the Road– South Carolina Book Festival by John Lane
This is my first post for my week as BAP guest blogger and it will be short. Tonight for dinner I ate something called a Liberty Tavern Club. It had an egg on it.…
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“This Gentle Surgery” [by Malachi Black]
This Gentle Surgery Once more the bright blade of a morning breezeglides almost too easily through me, and from the scuffle I’ve been sutured tosome flap of me is freed: I am severed like…
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Life is over! [stealth post by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Life is over! Everything worked out fine. Humankind was a factory of a sort and the order’s been filled. Wasn’t it hard to keep going!? All that waking up and getting to bed. But that’s…
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Ethics and Aesthetics (by Malachi Black)
In the December issue of Poetry magazine, D. H. Tracy takes a long and interesting look at “The Moral and the Aesthetic, Recently.” Although his objective is to “consider how and with what consequences [contemporary]…
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From the KGB Files . . .
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Anne Waldman kicked off our spring poetry season on Monday. Here are samples of what they read before the standing-room-only crowd.
