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A Brief Brief for Subjects (3), by Daniel Brown
Some poets want every line in their poems to pop. And in their better efforts, most lines do: the poem goes off like a string of firecrackers. But if a poem is to make…
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The Best American Poetry 2014 Launch Reading: “The Best Kind of Art is the One That Might Be Dying” [by Danielle Elizabeth Chin]
Poets on stage at the BAP 2014 Launch. L to R: David Lehman, Ross Gay, Eileen Myles, Cornelius Eady, Joel Dias-Porter,Shara McCallum, Major Jackson, Lucie Brock-Broido,Jane Springer. Not visible: Mark Doty, Natalie Diaz, Sean…
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Emerson started things off. Now it’s up to you!
David Lehman is looking for a line beginning with "D" — in iambic tetrameter or pentameter preferably — for the American Scholar's crowd-sourced acrostic poem spelling out Ralph Waldo Emerson's middle name and relating…
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The Chicago School of Poetics Turns Three! (Check out our new master class with CAConrad)
The Chicago School of Poetics survived the “terrible two’s!” According to WebMD, this is a milestone in our cognitive development, even if it feels like we’re sometimes running out of energy. At age three, kids…
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A Brief Brief for Subjects (2), by Daniel Brown
I began yesterday with some quotes from Frost's essay, “The Figure a Poem Makes.” Here's another, in which Frost imagines a self-indictment from what he sees as a misguided school of poets: “We bring…
