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The Latest on the Land of Homer and Plato
Our travel correspondent, an inveterate traveler to an antique land, files this report on developments in Greece: <<< Travelers who believe that flying a foreign country's national airline reduces the likelihood of encountering terrorism…
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The Drapes of Wrath [from Susan Sontag’s Journals]
<<< Lizzie [Hardwick]: "Well, it's curtains for him, or, as my students would say, drapes." >>> from entry for 11/ 2 / 79 NYC Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals &…
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An Evening of Poetry from Russia and the United States
Last night, in the Corner Room of the New York Public Library's Mid-Manhattan Branch (40th Street and Fifth Avenue), an attentive audience was wowed by poems from Russia (with translations read by John Narins)…
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Digital Confluence: Tech Reference and Social Media as Poetry Form by Julie E. Bloemeke
Yesterday I wrote about the confluence of kismet in poetry, exploring how interviews, letters, poems, poets and seemingly random turns of events are able to stop us, resonate, to say, yes, here, this. But…
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Hands Across the Water: Britain’s National Poetry Competition comes to Best American Poetry
Here Here – and also on the sidebar to the right – is a little orange picture, with people excitedly scrambing over an enormous open book. This is your portal to entering the UK's…
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Dispatch from Dodge (Poetry Festival) by Madge McKeithen
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Site of the Dodge Poetry Festival The Dodge Poetry Festival happens biennially, has since 1986, is a large-scale celebration of poetry, and this year was only a quick train…
