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My Grandfather, Apollinaire, and Max Jacob [by Alan Ziegler]
excerpted from Based on a True Life: A Memoir in Flashes (work in perpetual progress) Home during Christmas break from college in 1968, I go with my mother to see her father, Charlie Popowsky,…
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Libraries: A Love Story [Charles Coe]
As a kid, I was an incurable library rat. Raise your hand if you were one too. (Yep…thought so.) From the time I was nine or ten, old enough to wander around on my…
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Congratulations Terrance Hayes, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
This just in: Terrance Hayes, guest editor of the Best American Poetry 2014, has been named a MacArthur fellow. By Michael A. Fuoco / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Terrance Hayes, a nationally renowned poet and a…
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Day 3: A Meal at the Well [by Lisa Vihos]
I was telling you yesterday about my first poetry teacher, Nancy Willard. I pulled a book she wrote off my shelf over the weekend, in preparation for blogging here. I found some really good…
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Day 2: The Art of Blogging and Who Reads Poetry? [Lisa Vihos]
I will begin by letting you in on a little trade secret of the blogging business. At least, it is my secret. Maybe not all bloggers operate this way, but I do. Here’s the…
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“What Have We Learned from Lehman’s Collapse?” [by David Lehman]
It is hard to believethat six yearshave passed sincethe day Lehman’semployees emptiedtheir desks intobanker’s boxes andtriggered the GreatRecession the worstthreat to our bankingsystem since the runson banks in 1933,the worst crisisof credit and confidencewith…
