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Mitch Sisskind: “I’m not a big man but I have big hands. . . ” (Navy Boot Camp)
CONCERN OVER SEXUAL PURITY ISSUES IN THE MILITARY COMPELS ME TO TELL THIS STORY — I entered Navy boot camp at the Great Lakes base north of Chicago. It was bizarre from the start…
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Happy birthday, John Ashbery: 90 years of greatness
Happy birthday to John Ashbery born July 28, 1927 Great American Poet a Leo with Virgo rising who shares a birthday with Gerard Maney Hopkins, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Marcel Duchamp, and Malcolm Lowry On…
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“Time” [by Kirsten Chen]
I’ve tried to translate it,but it won’t stay on the page.It is not meant for land.I chase it down a channel and attempt to reel it in, only for the thin line to break—for me…
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Three Poems by Baudelaire, translated by Richard Kutner
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire in Profile by Édouard Manet This is my last post as Author of the Week. It’s been an exciting experience. Since this is the Best American Poetry website, I’ve decided…
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Born today: Paul Violi (1944-2011)
Look for Remus in the index of a bookAnd you are bound to get “See Romulus”Which is perfectly logical but makes me wonderAbout indexes, or indices, and why I prefer the formerAs the plural…
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Mark Ford Reviews Karin Roffman on JA for “The Guardian”
<<<The American poet John Ashbery, who turns 90 this month, is often figured as the epitome of cosmopolitan sophistication – as a refined but radical innovator whose open-ended lyrics and narrative-free long poems refract and…
