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Next Line, Please: Enter Your Best August Haiku
The American Scholar today announced that its Next Line, Please contest will continue with David Lehman as judge. Contestants are invited to submit a haiku. Here's what David has to say about the form…
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The Poet Receives a Tool Box [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
Teacher and philosopher Adin Steinsaltz writes in his book, My Rebbe, about a holy person, “…we see the connection with the beyond or hear it more in the spaces between sentences….As they speak we…
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Port and Poetry: C’est Formidable! [by Stacey Harwood]
I don't know when David and I first found our way to Frédéric Bouché's Ports of New York winery. It certainly wasn't during a tour of the many wineries around the Finger Lakes wine region.…
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After Keats (by Mitch Sisskind)
That day in 1965 as Julie Christie Seduced the pool cleaning man I sequestered myself behind A cactus plant for the duration. It was quickly done. Palm Springs! This was before the traffic got…
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Living and Writing in Ambiguity [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
My father hangs upside down on a pipe that separates our street from the next. All of his change falls from his pockets. I am eight years old. The kids in the neighborhood have…
