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Haiku Exchange # 7 (Shapiro and Lehman)
Links of Snow Snow to me, I say,Is what bananas are toGabriel Marquez! I thought snow uselessUntil I saw a book sez:Economic Snow. A physicist cried:Wake up, David, you never Thought snow was useful!?…
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A Note on “Pop” by Barack Obama
Obama wrote "Pop" when he was 19. To my mind the most potent line in the poem is one of the shortest: "Fail to pass." The multiple extra meanings of pass (a football play,…
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“Pop” (by Barack Obama)
Pop Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and brokenIn, sprinkled with ashes,Pop switches channels, takes anotherShot of Seagrams, neat, and asksWhat to do with me, a green young manWho fails to consider theFlim…
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Mark Strand reads in Rome [by Moira Egan]
Damiano Abeni and Mark Strand (photo by Mario Ventura) Well, that was fun! The Cultural Center Foundation of the St. Stephen's School was the setting for a very nice reading by Mark Strand. Reprising…
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Ed Ochester Presents a Poem by Denise Duhamel
“Chatty, pop-cultural, comic, incisive — Denise Duhamel’s poems have their own unique stamp, but she’s the poetic granddaughter of Frank O’Hara.”—Ed Ochester Healing Pies After my parents’ accident, the pies kept coming: chicken pot…
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Inaugural Poems in the News
Three Flags, 1958, Jasper Johns In early December Nancy Benac of the Associated Press phoned me because she was working on a piece about the coming inauguration and she had read "A Poetry-Free…
