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Hamlet’s Horoscope [by David Lehman]
Hamlet was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 10, a Monday, at 8:11 AM. He wrote two novels and a book of poems, but it was as an actor and director that he gained…
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Yo, Dude: Shelley & Milton Meet Doug Lang [Terence Winch]
In honor of Percy Bysshe Shelley's recent birthday and John Milton's perpetual relevance, here are two pieces from Doug Lang’s funny, dazzling, and supremely inventive sonnet collection, dérangé (which full disclosure requires me to…
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Purity and Nonsense [Part 2] (by Brian Brodeur)
Thanks again to Jim Cummins, Stacey Harwood, and BAP for asking me to guest-blog. It's been an honor to share a few thoughts on poetry and teaching creative-writing with the discerning readers of BAP…
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Purity and Nonsense [Part 1] (by Brian Brodeur)
Kenneth Goldsmith, the Museum of Modern Art’s inaugural Poet Laureate, has been getting some press lately. With his pseudo-Dadaist philosophy of Everything’s a poem! Goldsmith has been regurgitating the perennial complaint that poetry is…
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“Champion of the Obsolete Event”: An Appreciation of Richard Frost’s Neighbor Blood (Sarabande 1996) (by Brian Brodeur)
I’ve started taking an unofficial survey among poets and writers still young enough to be labeled emerging. Whenever I meet a new one, I ask if she's heard of the poet Richard Frost. Though…
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My Desires are Undesirable [by Lera Auerbach]
I am not sure how this happened – but I am writing a book of aphorisms. To make matters worse – this book will be published soon! And if that was not bad enough…
