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Blog Exclusive: Bill Hayward’s portraits, and Bob Dylan [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
The first Act in Bill Hayward's stunning Chasing Dragons: An Uncommon Memoir in Photographs is a series of "traditional portraits." While he includes images that one would describe as "traditional," others hint at Bill's impulse…
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Poetry in Transylvania Part II [by Lloyd Schwartz]
This is Part II of a four-part series about the Transylvania Poetry Festival. You can read Part I here. Day Two The next morning began with Tara taking me for a walk around Sibiu.…
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Blog Exclusive: Introducing Bill Hayward’s “Chasing Dragons: An Uncommon Memoir in Photographs” [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Photographer and filmmaker Bill Hayward has just published Chasing Dragons: An Uncommon Memoir in Photographs (Glitterati, September 2015). Uncommon it is, and beautiful, and quite possibly the first of its kind. Bill has agreed to…
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Poetry in Transylvania [by Lloyd Schwartz]
Ed note: This week we'll be posting Lloyd Schwartz's reports from the Poets in Transylvania festival. Lloyd is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and teaches in the MFA Program at UMass Boston. His…
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Latina/o Poets On Liminal Spaces: A Conversation with Erika L. Sánchez [by Natalie Scenters-Zapico]
I first encountered Erika L. Sánchez’s work in a library at the University of New Mexico. Erika had graduated a few years before me, and I was working on a manuscript that would one…
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Sinatra’s Century by David Lehman: In Bookstores on October 27
Sinatra’s Century by David Lehman In this set of affectionate and vibrant fan’s notes, poet and critic Lehman (A Fine Romance) celebrates Ol’ Blue Eyes’s 100th birthday (December 12) with 100 impressionistic reflections on the…