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An Interview with Stephanie Brown Part 1: Intentionality & the Influential Six [by Heather J. Macpherson]
Stephanie Brown is by far one of our most fearless contemporary American poets. Her first collection, Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia Press, 1998) explores the dynamic extremes of suburban discord and the self.…
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Fists that Bloomed Like Devotions: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Phillip B. Williams’ Thief in the Interior
Thief in the InteriorPhillip B. WilliamsAlice James Books, 2016 Phillip B. Williams' debut collection, Thief in the Interior, absconds with luminous witness from the darkest places in our culture: the shadow’s hem, the…
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Heather J. Macpherson, Guest Author October 17-21
This week we welcome Heather J. Macpherson as our guest author. Heather is the executive director at Damfino Press, which publishes an online journal, sponsors an annual chapbook contest, and publishes Five Poems, a yearly…
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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till You’ve Won (by Nin Andrews)
After hearing about the Nobel Prize for Literature, I was reminded of my first grade class, particularly of a workbook for what was then called New Math. The workbook included pictures of sets…
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Clearing a Path to Truth: On Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” [by David Lehman]
ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTOPHER SERRA From the Wall Street Journal, October 15-16, 2016 Not the least of Robert Frost’s accomplishments is that he managed to balance popularity with artistic excellence. Take “The Road Not Taken” (1916),…
