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Introducing Scottish poets 9: Kathleen Jamie [by Robyn Marsack]
Moon Last night, when the moonslipped into my attic-roomas an oblong of light,I sensed she’d come to commiserate. It was August. She travelledwith a small valiseof darkness, and the first few starsreturning to the…
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Bent Stutzes, Willie Mays, Bambi, Balanchine, Frogs in Bottles, Fonzie, Kissing Hemingway’s Ass, and other Tid-bites on Critiquing [by Alan Ziegler]
A teenage gymnast was doing miraculous things in the Olympics. Her flexibility and strength were astonishing. The television commentator shrieked something like, “Oh no, she bent her knees on the stutz!” The knees had…
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Next Line, Please: On second thought, make it two! [by David Lehman]
Over at the American Scholar, the "Next Line, Please" contest continues. This time readers are invited to write two-line poems. When I edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry, I discovered a whole genre of…
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Hooray for Team Sestina!
Over at the American Scholar, a group of committed poets have been writing a sestina, week by week, stanza by stanza. Last Tuesday, David Lehman picked a title, thus completing the poem. Here's what…
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Introducing Scottish poets 8: John Glenday [by Robyn Marsack]
Song for a Swift be owlmy oldest night be wrenmy selfish grief be gullmy restlessness be larkmy disbelief be hawkmy hidden path be dovemy weary fist be swiftmy only soul my only soulbe swift…
