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Over the Moon and Back Again [by Heidi Seaborn]
In an MFA workshop last summer, an acclaimed poet declared that the moon was over, that it had been over used and needed to be relegated to the poetry graveyard with ravens and heart.…
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Heidi Seaborn, Guest Author March 18-22
This week we welcome Heidi Seaborn as our guest author. Heidi is the author the award-winning debut book of poetry Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, March 2019), Poetry Editor…
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Is this is the most beautiful paragraph in the English language? Yes. [by Stacey Lehman]
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time…
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Next Line, Please: Two-Word Titles [by Virginia Valenzuela]
John Ashbery once said that he liked to begin with a title, rather than end with one, when he sat down to write a poem. Here on Next Line, Please, we are partial to…
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A poem from The Awl by Meghan O’Rourke [posted by Mark Bibbins]
I am moved by the deep physicality of this poem, its small but significant moments of transformation, in which the mundane is made resonant and weird. How do we love someone we’ve never met,…
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On Fulke Greville (in memory of Ted Tayler) [by David Lehman]
(in memory of Edward Tayler, pictured left) Of all the Elizabethanswe studied in Ted Tayler’sfabled senior seminarat Columbia, Fulke Grevilletowered above the restof the masters ofwitty conceits extravagantlyspun out for maximum meaningand beauty of…
