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Introducing Scottish poets 7: Jen Hadfield [by Robyn Marsack]
Hedgehog, Hamnavoe Flinching in my handsthis soiled and studded but good heart,which stippling my cupped palms, breathes – a kidney flinching on a hot griddle,or very small Hell’s Angel, peeled from the vergeof a…
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Perjury Marloff Handicaps the Poets! [by Walter Carey]
In a rare interview with the gun-shy Ms. Marloff, I got her to open up about the current situation in poetry last Friday. First (she said) let me say a few words about the…
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Wordsmith’s A.Word.A.Day: The Cento (featuring David Lehman’s The Oxford Cento)
cento PRONUNCIATION: (SEN-to) MEANING: noun: A literary work, especially a poem, composed of parts taken from works of other authors. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cento (patchwork). Earliest documented use: 1605. NOTES: Nobel-prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot’s…
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Ready to Serve: “We don’t need you to be perfect.” [by Chelsea Whitton]
To be an excellent waitress or bartender, it is good to be physically coordinated and a linear thinker. I am neither of these. I am an unfailingly clumsy and largely disorganized person. It’s okay.…
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Communities of difference, communities of care [by tree turtle]
My posts this week on The Best American Poetry blog have all been about what it means to build writing communities of difference and writing communities of care. I am deeply grateful for this…
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What good are our literary efforts if we are dead? [by tree turtle]
I taught myself to read as a toddler to be close to my momma. My momma loathed me. I was, as she described me, her "sissy child" or the "changeling." Any admiration she had,…
