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“Radio Sestina” [by Rick Moody]
Editor’s note: We’d like to acknowledge Daniel Nester, who edited poetry for McSweeney’s site and chose to devote the space to a sestina a week by diverse poets. He did it brilliantly. Rick Moody’s…
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April 29, 1962 at the White House
April 29, 1962. White House dinner and reception in honor of Nobel Prize winners. Front row: President Kennedy chats with Pearl Buck, while Jackie lends an ear to Robert Frost. Buck’s back is turned…
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More on sheep and poetry
In 2002, a British writer, Valerie Laws, was awarded a grant to investigate what the BBC called "a new form of ‘random’ literature." A flock of sheep had their backs painted with individual words;…
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Poem Noir Becomes Prizefight Film (by Jenny Factor)
Joseph Moncure March may not have been a (m)ad man like our current crop of unexpected poetry-lovers, but he was a poet whose book-length narrative poem became the screenplay for the 1949 Hollywood feature…
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“August Pastoral” (by Laura Orem)
The sheep does not mind much — not even the necessary attention to his wounds, ragged bite marks on his neck from an old…
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Sheep as Metaphor [by Laura Orem]
A brief lesson in animal husbandry before I get to poetry: Sheep and goats were some of the first animals domesticated by humans (chickens were in there, too), which makes a lot of sense. …
