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Happy Birthday, Marilyn Hacker (by Jenny Factor)
Tuesday marked the birthday of poet, Marilyn Hacker. In her honor, I've been thinking about a writing an odd multi-part fairy tale poem, based around a particular Grimm story, and featuring a transgendered bear.…
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“every day millions of people die for our sins” [by Dina Gatina]
every day millions of people die for our sinsso what I won't say it twice let in a littleintime every day millions of people die for our sinsso whatyou're repeating yourselfso what, so what…
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WILLIAM BLAKE (11/28/1757) by Anthony Madrid (via facebook)
*I* have had just about all I can take Happy birthday, William Blake Planing and sawing before I’m awake Happy birthday, William Blake The God of our Fathers is still on the make Happy…
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Year in Review: POEMS BY AMELIA ROSSELLI AND A CONVERSATION WITH ROSSELLI TRANSLATOR DIANA THOW [ROBERT FERNANDEZ, July 8, 2012]]
Please welcome the scholar and translator Diana Thow, who for today’s entry has generously provided poems from her translation of Amelia Rosselli's Serie Ospedaliera (Hospital Series) in addition to some illuminating and insightful Rosselli context and…
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Poetry Forum: Tracy K. Smith 6:30 p.m. The New School Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, Ground Floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
On December 4th at the New School, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, Tracy K. Smith, will join David Lehman to read her poems and discuss her work. A former student of Lehman,…
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The Year in Review: A Moment of Respite [by Alice Kaplan, July 6, 2012]
In Brief (but not so brief….) On Thursday the newspaper announced that a new law would allow people to take paying guests in their homes. Will tourism be born again? There are cash machines…
