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Memories of the BAP 1992 Launch (ed. Charles Simic)
Bill Wadsworth, executive director of the Academy of American Poets, organized the launch readings of the 1992 and 1993 editions at the Alliançe Francaise in New York City. Bill kept these photos from the…
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Daniel Wolff: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________ The Drift of the World You are not forgotten. How could so large a part of us ever be?…
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On Eve Kosofsky Sedwick, “Queen of Queer Theory” [by Blake Smith]
from "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Big Fat Nonbinary Mistake" by Blake SmithTablet, January 12, 2023 Subhead: "The queen of queer theory sought to relieve the persecution complex that haunted the West. Instead, her work has…
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Is Poetry Kaput? [by Michelle Rochefoucauld]
It used to be God whose decomposing corpse made the big stink. Nietzsche announced the death. Freud put forth the exposition in The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontents. In its…
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Jan Steen, “The Drawing Lesson,” circa 1665.
Jan Steen, The Drawing Lesson, ca. 1665, Oil on panel, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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“Let’s Make a List” [by Tom Disch]
It's always a delight to stumble upon a new, previously uncollected poem by a master. Here is a poem Tom Disch wrote in December 2007. Let's Make a List The letter Lhas cast her…
