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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 2 — Janis Freegard’s ‘A Life Blighted by Pythons’
A Life Blighted by Pythons waiting at the bus-stopall I can think aboutis how my hovercraft is full of eels but it’s not, of course it’s notmy hovercraft is practically emptymy eels are few…
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“On Experimental Poets” [by Jim Cummins]
They think they're wags, but they're really tails. The Wags of Fear: fantasizing they carry nitro, but it's really 'Nite-So' ('night soil,' a green product developed by the Self-Importance Movement). Scorpions–not sorcerers or 'Scorpios'–but…
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Peter Ferry Guest Author June 30-July 4
This week we welcome Peter Ferry as our guest author. Peter grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Chicago. He has a B.A. from Ohio University and an M.A. in English Literature from Northwestern…
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Peter Jay Shippy wins our first poetry contest (2007)
HERE'S THE CHALLENGE: John Lawrence Ashbery, guest editor of the inaugural volume in The Best American Poetry series in 1988, has the same middle name as an American poet of note, born in the…
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FLASH MEMOIRS OF FOUR TEACHERS [by Alan Ziegler]
DAVID IGNATOW On February 15, 1971, I receive a telegram—a real telegram with teletype pasted onto yellow Western Union paper—announcing my acceptance into David Ignatow’s Craft of Poetry workshop at the 92nd Street Y.…
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Cambridge, England: Dining Mecca? [by Stacey Harwood]
Cambridge University, with its medieval passageways and glorious college gardens, has dominated this town for over 800 years. It is the university of Byron and Wordsworth, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking, Emma Thompson…
