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  • Tonight at KGB: Rusty Morrison + Camille Rankine + 2014 KGB Open-Mic winner Spencer Everett

    October 6, 2014

    KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Rusty Morrison + Camille Rankine + 2014 KGB Open-Mic Contest Winner, Spencer Everett Monday, October 6th, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997…

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  • Welcome to the Poet Party [by January Gill O’Neil]

    October 6, 2014

    Anyone who knows me knows I am all about community. We spend so much time alone working on projects that most of us crave the opportunity for connection. So last night, when the kids…

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  • January Gill O’Neill Guest Author October 6-10

    October 5, 2014

    Photo (c) Rachel Eliza Griffiths This week we welcome January Gill O’Neil as our guest author. January is the author of Misery Islands (fall 2014) and Underlife (2009), both published by CavanKerry Press. She is the executive director…

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  • Sputnik: October 4, 1957 [by David Lehman]

    October 4, 2014

    On this day in 1957, Sputnik went up and my sister Joan and I  and our father went up to the roof of our apartment house on Arden Street, and watched the sky. I…

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  • Interviews With Poets–Dana Levin–by Erin Belieu

    October 3, 2014

    Dana Levin (c) Anne Staveley Ach. What a week. Raced back from NYC, jumped off the plane, and made it barely in time to see my son’s city championship cross-country meet.  Jude did great—and…

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  • Next Line, Please: Diss All Cumbrances

    October 2, 2014

    The American Scholar's Next Line, Please contest continues with a crowd-sourced five-line acrostic poem. Here's how David Lehman introduced the contest: We are going to write an acrostic based on an epigraph. The poem…

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