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Brexit Envy [by Leon Elson]
Our correspondent in London reports on the mood over there now that Theresa May's plan for Brexit has suffered a second defeat in Parliament – a defeat that has been characterized as "significant," "crushing,"…
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“Le Printemps de la danse arabe#1” inaugurates a new dancing tradition [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: Courtesy LePrintempsArabedeladanse#1 It cheered me up when I saw the press release announcing the Le Printemps de la danse arabe#1 – The Arab Spring of Dance #1. Le Printemps means to be the…
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Poetry News from JFK by [Andrei Codrescu]
I like writing in airport lounges with two hours to spare before an overseas flight. This is the last pleasure left after airports became expensive holding cells in hell. I remember when you could…
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Farewell to George Stade, Dead at 85 [by David Lehman]
Columbia professor George Stade died of peneumonia on February 26. He was eighty-five, a mainstay of the Columbia English department for nearly forty years, blessed with good looks and athletic ability in addition to…
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Eleven Years Ago Today: Difficulty Part 2: reading Susan Howe [by Mark Doty]
Thinking about what's difficult in poetry makes me want to talk about a book I've been reading with great pleasure, Susan Howe's SOULS OF THE LABADIE TRACT, which New Directions published in 2007.The contexts…
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Ten Years Ago Today: Poetry, Difficulty, and a Very Annoying Word [by Mark Doty ]
I’ve just gotten home from school (I’m a guest teacher at Cornell University in Ithaca this semester) which means I’ve walked a bike-path through the woods, still ice-coated from this weekend’s storm. It’s amazing.…
