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That’s Not Poetry (Notes Toward a Post on Poetry and Ontology) [by Jake Adam York]
Once I started to get poems published, my grandmother would ask to see a poem. Always she’d say: That’s not poetry: it doesn’t rhyme. * People say this: Now that’s poetry. Think Crocodile Dundee:…
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“My Least-Favorite Patient or Colleague.” (by Stacey Harwood)
This is going to be fun . . . I heard from my friend Jim Stubenrauch the other day with news of a course he and Joy Jacobson are teaching this summer to graduate…
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Born on the 20th of July
On this day in 1944the poet Paul Violi was born a manwho loved historyand knew that onthe date of his birththe conspirators failedto kill the dictator athis Wolf's Lair headquartersand exactly twenty-fiveyears later a coupleof guys walked on the…
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This Just In . . . The First Annual Poetry Festival Pre-Fest Party!!
(view of Lady Liberty from Governors Island) From the same impresarios who bring the Poetry Brothel to major cities around the world comes this announcement: The hot city just got hotter: You are invited…
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James Fenton, Our Man in the States
James Fenton is an English poet who has always defied the stereotype. He is a splendid poet, who comes to us via Auden by way of John Fuller, and he served as Oxford Professor…
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Writers, Editors, Journals, Anthologies, Readers (& BAP 1994) [by Jake Adam York]
Yesterday, I sat down to the phone in my office to call a poet I very much admire (however quietly) to see if an essay he’d sent to Copper Nickel was still available. Generally…
