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Available Now: The Best American Poetry 2020
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title”…
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Just In Time For Rosh Hashana: The Jewish Food Society Podcast [by Stacey Lehman]
One of the highlights of 2017 was the opportunity to participate in Schmaltzy, a Jewish Food Society live storytelling event where celebrity chefs, grandmas, tech entrepreneurs and culinary mavens tell personal stories about when…
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In Burlington, Vermont, September 2018
When we went to Burlington, Vermont, in September 2018, as guests of Major and Didi Jackson, we discovered Barr Hill gin (sublime), sipped a drink that a local cafe owner concocted in Major's honor,…
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“Too Much Information” [by Tony Towle]
As we are sitting down to lunch,I observe that Poetry saved my life in 1960and ”might be doing so again at this very moment” —even though I wasn’t actually writing. While thatis being digested,…
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“There she is, the woman. . .” [by Jill Bialosky]
There she is, the woman who once inhabitedthese rooms, drank tea from this cup,her shape in the cushion, isn’t that hers?Those shelves filled with books from the bookshopsof her youth—Rilke, Plath Akhmatova, Stevens, Strand,afternoons…
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Stanley Moss Remembers Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, and Stanley Kunitz
<<<Hard years. I learned to disguise myself to earn a living. Wherever I went I carried my desperately thin production of poems and Wallace Stevens. I was sure Hitler was anti-satyr. I joined the…
