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Letters the Editors Forgot to Print [by Roz Kolnikov]
29 October 1990 CorrespondenceThe New Republic1220 19th Street, NWWashington, DC 20036 To the Editors: I bet you're getting lots of letters correcting you for attributing Our Town — rather than On the Town…
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Poetry Forum: Jorie Graham Wednesday, October 3, 6:30 p.m. The New School, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Jorie Graham's most recent book of poems, Place, was published last spring. She is the author of numerous other collections including Sea Change, Overlord, Swarm, and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems…
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Nancy Kelton, Guest Blogger October 1-5
Nancy Davidoff Kelton is the author of 6 books. Her essays have appeared in several sections of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Buffalo News, More, and Redbook among numerous other publications.…
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“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” [by Terence Winch]
I had a falling out with an old friend many years agoand I can’t stand to even hear anything about her. Can’tstand it. Drives me crazy. People say you must tryto transcend it all,…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: The Wrong Sort
When I was an undergrad at a fancy university, I remember being criticized on several occasions for not being “discriminating”—it was suggested I should be more exacting in whom I accepted as friends; it…
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Louis Simpson: Behind Enemy Lines [by David Lehman]
Louis Simpson, who graced the pages of The Best American Poetry three separate times, died on September 14. Born in Jamaica, the West Indies, in 1923, Louis came to the United States at the…