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Epigraph of the Month: “Tremor of Intent”
Anthony Burgess's Tremor of Intent (1966), his satire of espionage novels, bears a double epigraph. The first is from W. H. Auden: <<But between the day and nightThe choice is free to all, and…
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“. . .not a cemetery but a crowded, noisy maternity ward”: Dana Gioia on the state of American poetry
Here is a brief excerpt from Dana Gioia’s introduction to The Best American Poetry 2018: <<<The situation of poetry is impossible to describe but easy to summarize. No one fully understands what is happening because…
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A Footnote [by David Shapiro]
A Footnote for David Lehman a footnote is a link and a quotation is a photo and a poem can be easily deleted evenings Tell me, tell me, delete me instantly, isn't a reference…
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Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in movement: choreographic creation, performance innovation and dance promotion [by Tracy Danison]
Photo©Max Vaduk Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in an early performance of her groundbreaking "Violin Phase", part of her larger work "Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich" (1982) Albert Einstein said that…
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Ives Lives (a poem for Peter Frank) [by David Lehman]
Charles Ives’s second symphonyas conducted by Bernstein in 1951climaxes in “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean”which Peter Frank sang with the words“Charles Ives steals his tunes from all over”applying Sigmund Spaeth’s methodfor memorizing melodies…
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Next Line, Please: The Best is Here to Stay [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week week on Next Line, Please, Mr. Lehman offers us a brand new prompt, and as usual, it's a best of the best! Write a poem about “the best” example you know of:…
