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WHAT CAN POETRY DO? Part 2 [Kelle Groom]
For the last three years, I’ve been traveling and writing about the subjects of fear and living with uncertainty. This month I’m in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, glad to be in residence…
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The American Scholar’s Next Line, Please: The Tanka in Toto
In last week's Next Line, Please contest, judge David Lehman invited readers to write a two-line stanza, or "tanka" to build on Paul Breslin’s winning haiku from the previous week. Here's what Lehman has…
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WHAT CAN POETRY DO? Part 1 [Kelle Groom]
Earlier this month, I read Edward Hirsch’s New Yorker interview on the death of his son and on Hirsch’s process of writing about his son’s life and about losing him. He began with the facts,…
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Florence Cassen Mayers: “The sestina is my poetry”
Dear David (2) I’ve been meaningto thank you so much for publishing my workon The Best American Poetryblog a few months back.Isn’t it the same old same old: well meaning folk post great feedback,then…
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A 21ST CENTURY RAIN: Interview with Brian Turner, Author of My Life as a Foreign Country [Kelle Groom]
photo (c) Kim Buchheit Brian Turner’s latest book is My Life As a Foreign Country: A Memoir published by Jonathan Cape/Random House UK (June 2014) and in the U.S. by W.W. Norton & Co.…
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“Before You Were Born” [by Michael Lally]
I could memorize my poemsand declaim them from stagesin avant-garde spaces andcoffee house traces ofsomebody else's ideasand call it performance art,but I already did thatbefore you were born. I could put them on stages…
