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Conversation with Philip Levine: On growing up Jewish in Detroit, playing tennis in verse, and hanging on to his memories
Philip Levine. (Geoffrey Berliner, courtesy Library of Congress) This year, 83-year-old Philip Levine, poet of the working class, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. Tablet book critic Adam Kirsch once pointedly noted…
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“Before poems and prayers, there were spells and charms . . .” Poets on the art of basketball [by Catherine Woodard]
“April is the cruellest month,” for a basketball fan. No more college March Madness until next year. Not until May will the NBA playoffs get serious or the WNBA season begin. To continue the…
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“For Adolf Eichmann” by Primo Levi
The wind runs free across our plains, The live sea beats for ever at our beaches. Man makes earth fertile, earth gives him flowers and fruits. He lives in toil and joy; he hopes,…
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TONIGHT! Melissa Broder + Martine Bellen at KGB Bar
Melissa Broder + Martine Bellen April 16, 2012 Reading starts at 7:30Hosted by Megin Jimenez and Matthew Yeager Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th Street Melissa Broder is the author of two poetry collections, Meat Heart (Publishing Genius,…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender, On Thunderclaps & Other Extremes
Equal parts gin, whiskey and brandy, shaken and strained. According one Prohibition-era recipe book, Here’s How!, once you serve it, you’d better run. The Thunderclap does sound pretty awful, and lethal too—a hit-and-run act…
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NaPoWriMo: The Halfway Point
It’s day 15, and all downhill from here, NaPoWriMoers. Are you hallucinating yet? Excellent. Today’s prompt: a parody. Here's a fine example from the cinema. Now, onto the poems.
