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Interview: Steven Karl (by Rob Crawford)
On a busy, damp evening this week I interviewed by phone or in person three prominent younger New York poets who also run poetry reading series—Steven Karl, Douglas Piccinnini, and Chris Hosea. Enjoy the…
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Charles Simic to Get Frost Medal
Charles Simic will receive the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America at their awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 19 (at PSA headquarters in the National Arts Club at 7 PM). Previous Frost…
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Mystery Authors Who Write Fast (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
In her posthumously published autobiography, Agatha Christie revealed that she wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles, her first detective novel, in two weeks. Ed McBain wrote his early 87th precinct novels in about a…
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Improved by the Ashbery-Tinsley “Improvement”: Poems & Cocktails at Back Forty [by Stacey Harwood]
L to R: Chef Pacifico, Peter Hoffman, and Bob Holman The idea was genius, cooked up by Tree Swenson of the Academy of American Poets and poetry-loving restaurateur Peter Hoffman (Back Forty, Savoy): Take…
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“When that I was and a little tiny boy”
(posted by Rob Crawford)When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.But when I came to…
