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An Interview with Denise Duhamel [by Aspen Matis]
Denise Duhamel is the author of Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021). Her other titles include Scald; Blowout; Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She guest edited The Best American Poetry 2013 (Scribner) with David…
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Clarinda Harriss: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________________________________________________ April 8, 9, 10: Dear Steve The crows you heard as omens were omens. Frost…
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On “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” [by David Lehman]
One of Gustave Doré’s celebrated engravings illustrating the poem. PHOTO: ART RESOURCE Perhaps the scariest great poem in the English language, even including Poe's, was written by a young genius of limitless potential who…
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English Flavors by Laure-Anne Bosselaar [by Nin Andrews]
I love to lick English the way I licked the hard round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for six good conduct points on Sundays after mass. Love it when…
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Four Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Great Tweed He was called the Great Tweed because A Tweed was a perfectly attired student And he was great at it so he was called The Great Tweed. Once in a…
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Berio’s “Sinfonia” [by Lewis Saul]
One day during my short stint at Juilliard, the composer Milton Babbitt came as a guest lecturer in one of my composition classes. Mr. Babbitt gave us a nice lecture on 20th century music…
