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Eleven Questions for Eleven Poets, including Dana Levin, Max Ritvo, Tony Trigilio [by Alan Michael Parker]
When offered a guest appearance on the Best American Poetry blog, I decided not only to write a couple of articles that I’ve been mulling over, but also to celebrate new books of poems…
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Wystan Knows Best [by David Lehman]
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…
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Alan Michael Parker Guest Author September 19-23 & 26-30
photo (c) Karl Nussbaum, 2016 Alan Michael Parker is the author of The Ladder (Tupelo Press), his eighth collection of poems, along with four novels, including Christmas in July, forthcoming from Dzanc Books. He has…
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Playground, East 67th Street
Playground, view from the 4th Floor (c) Stacey Lehman So this is where the children hide all day, These are the nests where they letter and draw, where they put on their bright miniature…
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Patch the lonely hours: Storee OptiK® deemed safe and effective
Storee OptiK® is one’s analytical model of choice for examining bootless foreign adventure, gender and wealth differentials, social priorities, the threat of foreign-inspired terrorism, or just plain observing a refined selection of one’s…
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Avid Reader: Robert Gottlieb on his Life in Publishing [by David Lehman]
Did you know that in college Richard Howard was known as Dick Howard? Or that Robert Gottlieb, one of the great names in American book publishing, got his first job (at Simon & Schuster)…
