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On Masterpieces and Insects
George Balanchine, left, Igor Stravinsky, right. (Balanchine.org) "If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?" …
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The life story of the death of art by Janice Erlbaum
The critic Harold Bloom famously called slam poetry "the death of art." And homeboy never even had to sit through a slam! I sat through my share back in the early ’90s, as a…
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The Square Root of Despair [by Kierkegaard & Walker Percy]
"The specific character of despair is that it is unaware of its despair'' — Kierkegaard Epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer –DL
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How Luscious Lies
1377 Forbidden Fruit a flavor hasThat lawful Orchards mocks —How luscious lies within the PodThe Pea that Duty locks — by Emily Dickinson — sdh
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Breaking News
The Best American Poetry 2008 has reached the Number #1 Spot on The New York Times Best Seller List outselling all other books combined. The Best American Erotic Poems has claimed the #2 spot…
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Dog Years
Mark Doty, our guest blogger for the week of March 10, recently published FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. At the same time, his memoir of a year ago was published in paperback. …
