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AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID WOJAHN [by Nin Andrews]
I I recently moved back to my hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the most exciting events in Charlottesville is their annual Virginia Festival of the Book. In preparation for the festival, I have been reading…
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POETRY FORUM: TERRANCE HAYES, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018 AT 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award in 2010 and was guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2014. His books include How to Be Drawn (Penguin Books, 2015), Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002). Two books, American Sonnets for…
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Next Line, Please: Postcard From the Future [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's prompt, most broadly, was to translate a poem from a language which the author does not know. Next Line, Please contributors were given Armando Frietas Filho’s “Cartão-postal sem fôlego” (“Breathless Postcard”) to translate…
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Auden on Lenin: Propaganda poems make nothing happen (twice)
Happy birthday, Wystan, born today 112 years ago (February 21, 1907). Here’s an article that appeared in the Guardian in 2009. Note that the newspaper uses a photograph of Auden the elder statesman, face cracked; Auden…
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A Single Small Voice and a Silence Answering After: Six Brief Reviews by Dante Di Stefano
Not Elegy, But ErosNausheen EusufNYQ Books, 2017 Nausheen Eusuf’s protean debut collection, Not Elegy, But Eros, shuttles between elegy and ode, nimbly shifting between formal styles as it memorializes and praises subjects and people…
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“Sexism” in Two Languages [by David Lehman, trans. Saulius Vasiliauskas]
Sexism [by David Lehman] The happiest moment in a woman’s lifeIs when she hears the turn of her lover’s keyIn the lock, and pretends to be asleepWhen he enters the room, trying to beQuiet…
