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From the Archive: When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems (by Laurence Goldstein)
(Ed note: Anthony Madrid posts thus far are pretty terrific, yes? I kow you agree so to show your appreciation you should buy his book. His post about translation got me free associating until…
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Forty Swimsuits [by Molly Arden]
Tonight’s entry begins in the small closet in the upstairs hall. There, a bag of shameful confirmation is knotted evidence of a ritual I’ve practiced since my teens. It’s difficult to discuss without the…
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ONE LITTLE IDEA ABOUT TRANSLATION [by Anthony Madrid]
YEARS AGO, I was tutoring a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl named Ryann. Ideal kid. Wide-awake, responsive, ready for anything. She had an assignment to write a poem for school, so I was gonna show…
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“Men Marry What They Need” [by John Ciardi] & a Brainteaser
John Ciardi, a poet and editor whose verse translation of Dante many of us read in college, and who is sometimes patronized as "middle-brow," wrote an amazing poem, which you should read: "Men Marry…
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“Santa Muerte” [by Allison Contey]
Between opening and closing your lips—stonesas gathered from the plain as commanded by the angelas found in the river, smooth…
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QUESTIONNAIRE [by Anthony Madrid]
1. Name some poets everybody in your milieu likes, except for you. 2. The opposite. Poets you like, but none of your friends do. Poets you are always having to defend. COMMENTARY ON 1…
