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“When I told my mother I was a restaurant critic . . .
Mimi Sheraton she said, ‘What do you want to do that for? A man works hard, he has his own place, he has a successful business, a wife, children. All is well. Then in…
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Let’s Get this Party (Kick) Started!! Help fund the Second Annual New York Poetry Festival
Our enterprising friends over at the Poetry Society of New York are planning the second annual New York Poetry Festival (July 21-22), which is going to be bigger and better than last year's wildly…
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Jenny Factor, Guest Blogger April 8-14
This week we welcome back Jenny Factor as our guest blogger. Jenny's first collection, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press), was a finalist for the 2002 Lambda Literary Award. Factor's poems have appeared…
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Overheard: 14th Street & University Place
He #1: So, what discipline do you look for when you hire? He #2: English. I mean, a good English major. They'll write good code, code that you can understand. They'll include lots of…
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More NaPoWriMo Poems, Day #11
Ahoy, scribblers! I'll be posting more NaPoWriMo poems this month—when the spirit moves me. And on Day #11, color me moved. Today's prompt: "Write a poem of the five senses." December 30 At 1:03…
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On Reading, Part I: Reading for Writers (by Jenny Factor)
I have this Magellan-esq idea about reading that I want to explore today… In my experience, reading (for a writer) is something like an opera singer's scales, a kind of preparation of the whole…
