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“Four Quartets” Revisited [by Belle Randall]
Ed. note: T. S. Eliot was born today 121 years ago. He remains the modernist poet par excellence, reliably moving readers — sometimes to deep thought, sometimes to sly parody. Each period in his…
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William Waltz presents. . .a Poem by Dean Young
My friend and colleague the recently departed John Parker once told me a student of his believed that poems were written in code, which, once broken, would reveal the poem’s true meaning. This young…
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Photos from the Gala Launch Reading (I)
Richard Howard reading at the gala launch reading for The Best American Poetry 2009at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in NYCSeptember 24, 2009 photo credit: Bill Hayward.
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“Pop Cento: Theory and Praxis” [by David Shapiro]
On George Gershwin's birthday, a poem by David Shapiro: Pop Cento: Theory and Praxis In theory, it was a foggy day. In practice, spring is here.In theory, blues in the night. In practice, that's…
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“The Friday Night Fights” [by Ronald Wallace]
David Wagoner selected a sonnet by Ronald Wallace for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry. Wallace, who once wrote a sonnet a day for 365 days, wrote "No Pegasus" on the back…
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Why I’m Going to see Vermeer at the Met
In a recent New Yorker Peter Schjeldahl writes in "Dutch Touch" this sentence: An artist has contrived to lure me out of myself into an illusion of reality more fulfilling than any lived reality…
