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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 9 — James Brown’s ‘The Language of the Future’
The Language of the Future For Catherine In the language of the futuretoday will always be todayand the moments will sparkle like bearings.There will always be enough timeto get things donebecause there will…
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Sara Eliza Johnson, Guest Author August 18-22
Sara Eliza Johnson's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Ninth Letter, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, Crab Orchard Review, Pleiades, Meridian, TriQuarterly Online, and elsewhere. She is the recipient…
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Midnight Deadline: Haiku by David Lehman
Deadline tomorrowMidnight in contest for bestHaiku of August. — David Lehman (Enter your haiku at the American Scholar.)
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He’s Back! The “Corn Dude” and Elaine Equi’s “Lesbian Corn” by Stacey Harwood
Here in New York’s Finger Lakes, corn season arrives late and leaves early. If you're like me, when you spot the first ears at a farmers market or roadside stand, you go a little…
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Language Becomes a Character [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
Joseph Brodsky in his 1987 Nobel Lecture stated, “There are, as we know, three modes of cognition: analytical, intuitive, and the mode that was known to the biblical prophets: revelation. What distinguishes poetry from…
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No Strawberries in the Soup [by JB]
"When you have this menu for your guest's dinner, stick to the contents of each course as you serve it–no strawberries in the soup. . . . You must treat every topic once and…
