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True News from Paris: eight well-loved performances [by Tracy Danison]
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker talks through "Violin Fase", Lafayette Anticipations 2018 © Tracy Danison Over the next couple of months I would like to report True News on creators and performances worth looking out…
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Remembering JA the Day After He Died
<<<Writing about him in the Times, poet Rae Armantrout reflected on how Ashbery’s down-to-earth humor manifested within his poems. “He is one poet who can somehow be simultaneously elegiac and playful, even goofy,” she…
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Kent Johnson asks “Could Someone Tell Me Why?”
Kent Johnson has written an eight-page poem about The Best American Poetry, the American poetry scene and his place in it. "It is all in the honorable, august traditions of satire," he says. The poem…
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Met Percent: Week Five [by Alec Bernstein]
Streams and Mountains Without End I did some Met mezzanine stuff, but now the second floor . . . China: The landscape in length: “The Mountains in Fog” is a scroll (1’ high and…
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SAVE THE DATE: September 19, 2019, The Best American Poetry 2019 Launch Reading
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST). The Auditorium, Room A106, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall. 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 The celebration to kickoff fall in NYC! Series editor David Lehman and guest…
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Why We Paint it Noir [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
Why are poets attracted to film noir? Suzanne Lummis: Well, out this way there aren’t as many poets who double as film noir buffs as one would expect, but, for some, my YouTube…
