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E. Ethelbert Miller: Another Day In My Life
OK, I know the blog rules here. No politics. So let me talk about geography and poetry. With New Orleans and Alaska in the news there are a number of poets in my thoughts…
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“Chester” [by John Koethe]
CHESTER Wallace Stevens is beyond fathoming, he is so strange; it is as if he had a morbid secret he would rather perish than disclose . . .– Marianne Moore to William Carlos Williams…
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E. Ethelbert Miller and Poet Lore
Poet Lore magazine is the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States. It was established in 1889. I’ve been one of the editors since 2002. Soon Poet Lore will be celebrating its…
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“September 1, 1939” [by W. H. Auden]
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the bright And darkened lands of the…
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Devil or dupe? (by Mitch Sisskind)
Killer Kowalski was one of the icons of the so-called Golden Age of professional wrestling during the 1950s and 60s. His death on August 30, together with the selection a few days earlier of…
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Just got off the phone with. . .
Richard Wilbur [photo by Nancy Palmieri] Just got off the phone with Richard Wilbur, who, industrious as ever, has finished translating two more Corneille plays that Harcourt will soon publish. And for the first…
