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One of the Funniest – Mitch Sisskind on KCRW’s Bookworm, 1993
Does anyone out there have a copy of Dog Man Stories by Mitch Sisskind? If yes, let's talk. After listening to Michael Silverblatt's 1993 interview of Mitch on his popular Bookworm radio show, I'm…
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Amy Allara, Guest Blogger February 1-7
This week we welcome Amy Allara as our guest blogger. Amy's poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly, The New Review of Literature, LIT, 26: a journal of poetry and poetics, First Intensity, and…
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History and the Poem–Part One [by Amy Allara]
In 2002 I inherited a 19th Century travel journal from my paternal Grandmother—the journal had been written by a relative, to whom I was a niece thrice-removed, and it had been kept between the…
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Ed Ochester Presents a Poem by Jan Beatty
“Nobody has a better sense of the colloquial American idiom. Nobody among her contemporaries writes better poems about urban working-class life. And she can surprise you, too, as in the following poem.” —Ed Ochester…
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Nabokov’s Gift
Vladimir Nabokov took hi’s epigraph for The Gift from a Russian school-book: "An oak is a tree. A rose is a flower. A deer is an animal. A sparrow is a bird. Russia is…
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Molly P’s Coda to This Week’s CanAm Blog: Stephanie Bolster on The Best
To find the last words for the Canadian-American exchange we've been having this week, I quote Stephanie Bolster, the intrepid first editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Though a reader of…
