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Tales of the Seventies: Old Johnny Herald [by Alan Ziegler]
Note: On September 6, John Herald would have turned 76. He died in 2005, apparently a suicide. I spent a few days with him in 1975. My roommate Jerry Leichtling (who is—among other things—a…
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For lack of what is found there [by Julia Shipley]
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I took the train to school. When I boarded the train in the morning, what I saw first was not a sea of faces, but a…
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WHY GOD IS A WOMAN by Nin Andrews [Review by Jessie Carty]
(Ed note: Nin Andrews is a long-time contributor to this blog. You can find her comics here and her "Meet the Press" interviews with the people behind small presses here. We were pleased to find…
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Julia Shipley, Guest Author September 7-11
This week we welcome Julia Shipley as our guest author. Julia is the author of a debut collectionThe Academy of Hay,(Bona Fide Books, 2015) winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. Her first…
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Lehman’s “THE STATE OF THE ART”: “a swift, dishy, insightful, entertaining account of American poetry’s fashions and trajectories . . .”
THE STATE OF THE ARTA Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014By David Lehman198 pp. University of Pittsburgh, $24.95. In 1987, Lehman, the prolific poet, critic and editor, somehow talked Scribner into publishing an annual anthology…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Coversation with Lisa Bayer, Director at the University of Georgia Press
NA: I read on the website that the University of Georgia is a well-established press that has been around since 1938. It publishes 60 to 70 books a year? How many of them…
