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In Memoriam: Daneen Wardrop & Laura Boss
When a poet dies there is a vast caesura, a field of lilacs interrupted by wing beats and heartbeats and aches and aches and: snugly in the ampersand at the end of a life,…
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David Lehman’s “Peace and War in American Poetry” [by Anne Holmes]
from the Library of Congress: November 22, 2019 by Anne Holmes The following essay was written in 2012 by David Lehman as part of the Poetry and Literature Center’s online “Poetry of American History” series that ran from…
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Viennese Traffic Lights [by Lera Auerbach]
In Vienna, they have same-sex pedestrian traffic lights. Typically, traffic lights are sexist: they display a matchstick figure of a man that turns green or red and sometimes flashes nervously, trying to speed up…
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An Interview with Elizabeth A. I. Powell [by Nin Andrews]
I met Elizabeth A. I. Powell years ago when we were both students in the MFA program at Vermont College. A young mother with three small children and another one in her future, she…
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Book Recommendation: Philip Brady’s The Elsewhere: Poems and Poetics
Philip Brady's The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics is a collection aimed at eternity. Brady's new and selected provides an unabashedly bardic synthesis of the smoking girders and brickwork that make a life in poetry. Ranging…
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The Four Noble Truths [by Mitch Sisskind]
Number One, in a nutshell: life is pain And (Number Two) life's pain is caused By desire; so if Old Smengie desires A coffee date date with Paige Spiranac (Google her) because It might possibly Lead…
