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Live Performance Pilgrimage, with Walkabout: Normandy’s Spring International Festival of New Circus [By Tracy Danison]
Les filles du renard pâle, "Révolte". Photo © Kalimba Just when good ideas for whiling away the coming months seem so thin on the ground, a great one comes along. Spring, 16ème Festival international…
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David [poem by Marie Syrkin]
DavidMarie Syrkin Suppose, this time, Goliath should not fail;Suppose, this time, the sling should not availOn the Judean plain where once for allMankind the pebble struck, suppose the taleShould have a different end: the…
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John Taylor’s Brilliant Essay on the Prose Poem
Here is an excerpt. from "Two Cultures of the Prose Poem" by John Taylor Ponge's strategy for destroying concepts provides a telling parallel to T. S. Eliot's notion of "forcing . . . language…
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An Interview with David Keplinger [by Nin Andrews]
Anyone reading my recent posts might notice I've been talking/thinking a lot about David Keplinger's poetry. These last few weeks, his poems have been speaking to me. I see in his prose poems the…
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A Note on the Simile [by David Lehman]
Similes are as underrated in contemporary writing as Longfellow is underrated among his nineteenth century confreres. Well, maybe all rhetorical figures are underrated. The neglect of rhetorical devices, verse forms, rhyme, and other “adjuncts…
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Who said it? [quote of the week #2, 2025 series]
"Hans was mediocre in the most honorable sense of the word." "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also the truth." "Speaking French is, for me, like speaking without saying anything —…
