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Walter Lehmann [by David Lehman]
Have you heard of Walter Lehmann? I write about Uncle Walter's poetry in the new issue of John Tranter's Journal of Poetics Research. <<< Among my father’s cousins, Walter Lehmann was…
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Frank O’Hara: “A Step Away from Them”
It's my lunch hour, so I go forfor a walk among the hum-coloredcabs. First, down the sidewalkwhere laborers feed their dirtyglistening torsos sandwichesand Coca-Cola, with yellow helmetson. They protect them from fallingbricks, I guess.…
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Ours is a Long Love Song: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Nate Marshall’s Wild Hundreds
Wild HundredsNate Marshall University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 In the year or so since Wild Hundreds first appeared in print, Nate Marshall’s award winning debut poetry collection feels even more necessary in the wake…
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Eleven Questions for Eleven Poets, including Dana Levin, Max Ritvo, Tony Trigilio [by Alan Michael Parker]
When offered a guest appearance on the Best American Poetry blog, I decided not only to write a couple of articles that I’ve been mulling over, but also to celebrate new books of poems…
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Wystan Knows Best [by David Lehman]
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…
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Alan Michael Parker Guest Author September 19-23 & 26-30
photo (c) Karl Nussbaum, 2016 Alan Michael Parker is the author of The Ladder (Tupelo Press), his eighth collection of poems, along with four novels, including Christmas in July, forthcoming from Dzanc Books. He has…
