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The Year in Review: What Copywriting Taught Me About Poetry by Megin Jimenez (February 29, 2012)
A few years ago, when I was working as a Freelance Everything (writer, editor, translator), I spent some time as a copy writer at Victoria’s Secret, two days a week for about a year.…
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Two Poems by Iran’s Rebel Poet, Forugh Farrokhzad [by Sholeh Wolpé]
It has been a pleasure blogging for the Best American Poetry this week. As promised, here are two poems by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad. Mates Night comes then darkness past night’s…
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Why the Dickens would they Ditch Dickey? [by DL]
Why do sports pundits persist in recommending that rebuilding franchises trade their best players? Thus Brian Costa in "Why Dickey Should Be Traded" (Wall Street Journal, Nov 9, 2012, p. A21) ). The theory…
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“La Rafile” at the Quad, November 16 — and “Plimpton!” at SVA on Sunday the 11th
La Rafile — "The Round-Up" — opens at the Quad Cinema on Thirteenth Street just east of Sixth Avenue on Friday, November 16. Roselyne Bosch's hard-hitting 2010 movie depicts the despicable behavior of the…
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Another Poem of Devotion: For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly by David Lehman
Luke Hankin's post last week about poems of devotion, reminded me of this poem by David Lehman, one of my favorites: For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly For it was the first day…
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“La Glorieta, Buenos Aires” by Mong-Lan
"La Glorieta, Buenos Aires," by Mong-Lan, 2011, 28" x 39" Mong-Lan left her native Vietnam in 1975, on the last day of the evacuation of Saigon. A poet, writer, dancer, visual artist, singer, and educator,…
