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Poet Spotlight: Elizabeth Powell [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Elizabeth Powell is the author of The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner, selected by C.K. Williams. Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary…
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Squibs 274—288 [by Alan Ziegler]
274: The case for religion: It is viable to live by that which cannot be disproven. 275: I have a closet full of unused items labelled Patent Pending. I’ve been meaning to contact the companies to…
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On the Ides of Ted: A Tribute to Professor Tayler [by David Lehman]
A memorial tribute for the late Edward Tayler, Columbia's great Renaissance man (and my mentor), on March 15, 2019, a Friday, at 3 PM in the rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia…
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Happy Fasnacht Day! [by Laura Orem]
The Fight between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on panel, 1559 It's Shrove Tuesday, and while New Orleans may have Mardi Gras, we here in Pennsylvania Dutch Country have Fasnacht Day.…
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Poet Spotlight: Veronica Golos [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Veronica Golos is the author of three poetry books, Rootwork: Lost Writings of John Brown and Mary Day Brown (3: A Taos Press), Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner of the 2011…
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Poet Spotlight: Karla Kelsey [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Karla Kelsey is the author of four books: Knowledge Forms the Aviary; Iteration Nets; A Conjoined Book; and Of Sphere. With Aaron McCollough she edits Split-Level Texts and with Poupeh Missaghi she edits Matters…