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Tales of the Sixties: Dollars to Donuts [by Alan Ziegler]
In 1962, my father sells the milk route (no more work days starting at 2 a.m.) and looks for a business to get into with Bill, from Shelly and Bill’s candy store in…
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Best Russian Poetry, Atlanta Review Russia Issue, Part 3: the PRINT ORGANS [by Alex Cigale]
For the past 30 quarterly issues, with alarming regularity, right on time, every three months or so, I, along with a rotating crew of intrepid volunteer editors, including, at one time or another, Philip…
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The Second Class with Paul Violi, a Conversation with His Son [by Alex Bennett]
Alex and Paul Violi Earlier this year I created my first class with Paul Violi, which was an attempt to know more about the poet’s inventive writing style and strategies for navigating life’s great…
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Best Russian Poetry; Atlanta Review Russia Issue, Part 2: The Translators
OK, so how many of you go straight for the bios at the back of the mag? I know, as an editor, I do. (More generally, I also read the footnotes first, to familiarize…
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Big Doings at the Poetry Foundation [by Susan Harrison]
The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation has named an interim president and a new board chairman. Henry Bienen, acting president, served as president of Northwestern University for fifteen years from 1995 to 2009. "I started out…
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Best Russian Poetry; Russia Issue of Atlanta Review (Spr. 2015, Vol. XXI, No. 2)
I owe the pleasure of this week to the evening spent at Cornelia Street Café at the back table with David Lehman and Lawrence Joseph (his friend of 50 years!) Jump cut: When I recently asked David might he…
