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Perils of the Poetry Reading [by Katha Pollitt]
Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don’t have the text in front of me? Even when reading to…
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“Take the No Out of Now”: Rozanne Gold in conversation with poet/multi-media artist Gerd Stern
Gerd Stern in front of Contact Is The Only Love, first shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1963 Politics excepted, death and dying have become the meat of current discourse. As…
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Jane Clarke: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________ Blue Cards Winter mornings he was gone before dawn to fairs in Ballyhaunis, Claremorris, Ballinrobe. He came home with muck on…
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On Gene Kelly [by David Lehman]
Here's an excerpt from "To Dance an Exclamation Point," a "talking pictures" column in The American Scholar: <<<The best stanza of Carl Sandburg’s “Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To” proposes a parallel…
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“Retronym time” from “Time Pieces” [by Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967-2009]
from "Time Pieces" by Rachel Wetzsteon Cheering: it was done.But soon the Great War would berenamed World War One. "Time Pieces," a brilliant sequence of haikus, firstappeared in The New Criterion and was selected by Kevin…
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Bob Guccione [by Mitch Sisskind]
Oh, don’t mind me. I come from a time When new issues of Playboy magazine Sold out in one day, when the windows Of coffee shops on Broadway were piled High with Playboys…
