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Next Line, Please: A Letter is a Joy of the Earth [by Virginia Valenzuela]
There are a number of poems that were considered by their authors be unfinished, even fragmented, including Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and some of Emily Dickinson’s mysterious two-liners. For this week we considered Dickinson's poem…
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Hip-hop in the performance puzzle: get a feel for it with Valentine Nagata-Ramos & François Lamargot [by Tracy Danison]
Photo©CédricSintes Old wine in new bottles: “My Milk is Better than Yours”, the old story of mother love in hip-hop style by Valentine Nagata-Ramos Hip-hop does a lot more than popularize, re-energize, enable and…
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On Fats Waller’s Birthday: I’m gonna sit right down and write [by David Lehman]
May 21Black Jack I beat the dealerand no use complainingeven though one or another souvenirof my bout with cancer may act upthrowing a left hook that I didn't evadeand the embarrassment of a knockdownwill…
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In China, in 2008: after the quake, before the Olympiad [by David Lehman]
Eleven years have gone by since Stacey and I traveled in China and Mongolia. Here's a blog post from then: << In Jinan, as previously in Dalian, despite the economic disparity between the two…
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The Paris Review Redux: Graduation Season
<<< From The Paris Review Redux: This week at The Paris Review, we’re turning our attention to graduation season. Read our Art of Poetry interview with Eileen Myles, as well as Venita Blackburn’s short story “Fam” and…
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Elizabeth Bishop on John Ashbery’s “Three Poems”
"At first I felt extremely baffled — only a sense of `motion' and the extremely good writing led me on — but now after many re-readings I think I am getting to understand them…
