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The Integrity of Poets [by Jim Cummins]
In the Times a few weeks back (April 25) an article by Edward Rothstein, "The Sorrow, the Pity, the Celebration: France Under the Nazis," reviewed an exhibition at the New York Public Library (the…
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Bill Hayward’s American Memory Project: Jason Shinder on Howl
For more on this extraordinary project, go here. –sdh
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More About Writing in Mojácar [by Sharon Dolin]
In Madrid, at the beginning of my month’s sojourn in Spain, I was quite struck by the room in The Prado of Goya’s “Black Paintings,” those he painted at the end of his life…
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Thursday, Craig Arnold, One of Possum’s Cats, and, of Course, More Auden [by Ernest Hilbert]
Craig Arnold, who went missing on the small volcanic island of Kuchinoerabujima, Japan, on April 30th, is also scheduled to appear in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. He was considered one of…
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Chapter X: In which I publish a poem in The New Yorker. [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, The Best American Poetry Blog seems to have an affection for the poetry of lyrics and with that in mind I offer the lyric to this keen ecstatic classic, which I think…
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Art Ain’t No Excuse (by Laura Orem)
In a key scene in the movie "Frost/Nixon," the David Frost character,played by Michael Sheen, challenges Frank Langella's Nixon on his actions leading up to his impeachment. Frost can't understand how Nixon, as an…
