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BAP Contributor’s Note of the Year: Happy Independence Day Roald Hoffmann.
(from the Best American Poetry 1994, ed A. R. Ammons): Roald Hoffmann was born in Zloczow, Poland in 1937. After escaping form a Nazi labor camp in January 1943, he and his mother hid…
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Tracks without Fossils, Pinchot Sycamores, Defamiliarization and Gabonese Hip Hop by Ravi Shankar
My last blog post for BAP so thanks to all of you for following along as my literary adventures took me from Jackson Hole, Wyoming back to Connecticut, where the state flower is the Mountain…
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Almost leaving- Sally Ashton
The program ends. Yesterday, I forgot my notebook and pen for the first time. I teared-up reading a Pessoa poem aloud to the last workshop(see below). The heat and humidity broke into a sweet…
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Bursting Bamboo Leads to the Bullet Train by Ravi Shankar
Fireworks, like mothers, are loved universally. Ever since the Han Dynasty, everyone from a Wall Street investment banker to a Mongolian yak-herder would stop with a jaw hung in astonishment to see that special…
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July is sestina month!
On Laura L. Barkat's T. S. Poetry Press, which posts poems on a daily basis, July is sestina month, and they are kicking it off with David Lehman's sestina "Operation Memory." Click here and thou shalt see! Other sestina-makers such…
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America Now and Here
Have you heard about "America Now and Here," an unconventional multi-year collaboration among artists determined to encounter America as a concept, a dream, a place, a sound — and to create a dialogue with…
