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Slip away soon and fly off with Orly’s take on the chanson française [by Tracy Danison]
ORLY has all the elements typical of the “chanson française” including, typically, un poète urgent, un pianist en transit and un sorcier souffleur, but ORLY also has charm and that je-ne-sais-pas-trop that makes you…
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Every Edge of the World: Morehshin Allahyari’s “The Laughing Snake” [by Katie Peyston Hoftstadter]
What I notice first: the carved wooden snake, glowing pink and gold in the darkened room. Her lips curl back to laugh, showing teeny-tiny fangs. In the corner, a hypertext narrative glitters quietly, ready…
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Next Line, Please: The Lehman Trilogy [by Virginia Valenzuela]
One day last week, David Lehman opened the newspaper and saw a full-page ad for a new play titled The Lehman Trilogy. As someone who shares the name, he has occasionally met people who…
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A Kickstarter Worth Supporting: For Walt Whitman’s birthday: War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials by Binh Danh & Robert Schultz
Our great national poet’s concerns during the Civil War apply with striking relevance in our own moment of war and dividedness. Whitman’s humane example and his central trope—the leaves of grass as sign of…
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“That’s What I Thought” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Everybody has a tragic storyAnd I have one of those too. Would you like to hear it For a couple of hours on an Economy class flight to LA?Haha that’s what I thought! So let’s talk about…
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“Poem in the Manner of the 1960s” [by David Lehman, with poster from Va Q R]
Virginia Quarterly Review's poetry poster from 2012
