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Remembering Turner Cassity (by David Yezzi)
Turner Cassity was an American original. A one-time student of Yvor Winters, he was, with Thom Gunn, the least Wintersian of that crowd. His inimitable guerrilla-style humor — darting in sideways like a velociraptor with a…
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MAKING IT FORMAL [by Elena Karina Byrne]
That's the headline caption in last Wednesday's Los Angeles Times front story about Clinton's mission in securing a pardon for the two captured reporters who illegally found themselves over the border in Korea, thereby…
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Time Poem Time [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love Sometimes I think we could have gone on. All of us. Trying. Forever. But they didn’t fill the desert with pyramids. They…
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A Tribute to Bill Evans
Bill Evans would have been eighty years old this Sunday, August 16, 2009,and on that day at 8:30 p.m.at the Cornelia Street Caféin downtown New York, there will be a tribute to the master…
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Greg Santos Interviews Jason Camlot (part 3)
For earlier installments of Greg Santos's interview with Canadian poet Jason Camlot, click here and here! GS: Do you have an audience in mind when you write your poetry? JC: I think the presupposition…
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SHAKESPEARE, WHERE WE EARNED OUR NAMES
some minx’s token laid on our tongues, some civilization’s content so absolute we can row a canoe seaward into its azured vault vocabulary, we can salt backwards in minutes to Name…
