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Alan Ziegler presents: A Portfolio of Short Prose Forms by Erin Morgenstern, Dylan Nice, Valerie O’Riordan, Max Ritvo, and Lauren Spohrer
Erin Morgenstern THE SHEEP KNOW ALL YOUR SECRETS Photo by Carey Farrell “They seem expensive,” I said to the pink-haired girl running the booth who…
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A Brief Brief for Subjects (4), by Daniel Brown
Last I checked, human faculties include the ability to follow a thought, a story, or a description. The author of a poem without a subject withholds engagement with these faculties—withholds engagement, that is to…
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AFTER WATCHING THE BIG HOUSE [poem by Laurence Goldstein]
Oz, Shangri-La, Bedford Falls,Pleasantville—how many ambiguousimagoes Hollywood has fashioned of itself!Our golden age, but darkened by sites under stress. Tonight I saw how it feelsto suffer the brute force of a hundred screws;the…
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A Brief Brief for Subjects (3), by Daniel Brown
Some poets want every line in their poems to pop. And in their better efforts, most lines do: the poem goes off like a string of firecrackers. But if a poem is to make…
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The Best American Poetry 2014 Launch Reading: “The Best Kind of Art is the One That Might Be Dying” [by Danielle Elizabeth Chin]
Poets on stage at the BAP 2014 Launch. L to R: David Lehman, Ross Gay, Eileen Myles, Cornelius Eady, Joel Dias-Porter,Shara McCallum, Major Jackson, Lucie Brock-Broido,Jane Springer. Not visible: Mark Doty, Natalie Diaz, Sean…
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Emerson started things off. Now it’s up to you!
David Lehman is looking for a line beginning with "D" — in iambic tetrameter or pentameter preferably — for the American Scholar's crowd-sourced acrostic poem spelling out Ralph Waldo Emerson's middle name and relating…
