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Next Line, Please: This Week’s Haiku, Next Week’s Tanka by David Lehman
Last week the American Scholar continued its Next Line, Please contest with an invitation to readers to submit their best haiku. Here's what David Lehman has to say about this week's winning haiku and…
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Behind the Blue Door [by Charles Coe]
During a recent drive along the Maine coast, I saw a strange-looking building that looked like a giant blue bowl turned upside down. I got closer to see white lettering on the side that…
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Poetry, Primordialism, & Post-Apocalypse [Sara Eliza Johnson]
Ascending eruption cloud from Redoubt Volcano. Photograph by R. Clucas. Emily Dickinson wrote to T.W. Higginson in 1862: I cannot rule myself, and when I try to organize—my little Force explodes—and leaves me bare…
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Room Service: The Betsy Hotel in South Beach [by Stacey Harwood]
Even though it's high summer, you may be thinking about a winter escape to Florida. You should consider staying at the Betsy, in South Beach, where David and I have stayed and where, in…
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Leonard Bernstein Wrote (Good) Poems [by David Lehman]
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) wrote poems — good ones, too — as you'll learn if you pick up The Leonard Bernstein Letters, edited by Nigel Simeone (Yale University Press). And today is Lenny's birthday —…
