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You’ve Read the Book, Now See the Movies!
For the past several months we've been collaborating with Minneapolis based Motionpoems on a project that will turn 12-15 poems from the Best American Poetry 2011 into short films. The brainchild of poet Todd…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Sarah Gorham of Sarabande Books
NA: When I think of Sarabande Books, I think: what a beautiful name, what beautiful books, and what a great web site. So first, how did you come up with the name for the…
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Oversound by Eve Grubin
“Did, perhaps, God say: you should not eat from any tree of the garden?” (3:3) This is a common translation of the snake’s opening words, seemingly innocuous, to Eve. The word “perhaps,” in particular,…
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Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl (by Laura Orem)
By now, most of the literary cosmos has either read for themselves or heard about Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul's comments in the Evening Standard that no woman writer is as good as he is.…
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Reach Into Your Pocket… by Eve Grubin
Like poetry, the Bible often leaves out important information. Character and plot description are kept to a minimum, and emotions are often hinted at but rarely stated directly. And both sometimes contain what seem…
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A Word that Contains Its Opposite by Eve Grubin
The speaker in Emily Dickinson’s poem, “A narrow fellow in the grass,” describes her response upon each time she meets a snake: …never met this fellow, /Attended or alone, /Without a tighter breathing,…
