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Sputnik: October 4, 1957 [by David Lehman]
On this day in 1957, Sputnik went up and my sister Joan and I and our father went up to the roof of our apartment house on Arden Street, and watched the sky. I…
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Interviews With Poets–Dana Levin–by Erin Belieu
Dana Levin (c) Anne Staveley Ach. What a week. Raced back from NYC, jumped off the plane, and made it barely in time to see my son’s city championship cross-country meet. Jude did great—and…
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Next Line, Please: Diss All Cumbrances
The American Scholar's Next Line, Please contest continues with a crowd-sourced five-line acrostic poem. Here's how David Lehman introduced the contest: We are going to write an acrostic based on an epigraph. The poem…
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Prompts: A Writer’s Dozen (one more than a baker’s dozen) [by Alan Ziegler]
To prompt or not to prompt? Is a piece of writing any less yours because it came from a prompt? Should a true artist even need to be prompted? Save these questions for the…
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MYSTERIES OF PARIS [poem by Laurence Goldstein]
“Note: The story of ‘The Vanishing Lady’ is a fair specimen of folklore in the making. For such a story to travel round the world by word of mouth, it is necessary that…
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Interviews With Poets: Matthew Zapruder [by Erin Belieu]
Hello again. Another quick and impertinent Interviews With Poets before scrambling off to more reading gigs. I’ll be schlepping around for my about-to-be-released book Slant Six from now till December (Columbus, St. Louis, San…
