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Walt Whitman Reads “America” and Gets Naked (by Rob Crawford)
What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than with Walt Whitman reading from his poem "America."(First four lines are preserved; click through for poem text.)He reads so slowly! And afterwards, he gets…
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Letter from David Lehman: The New School Establishes the Paul Violi Poetry Prize
Dear Friends, At the New School's Writing Program, we're happy to make it official: We're establishing the Paul Violi Poetry Prize at the New School. We will give out an award annually to the…
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Found in Translation [by Stephanie Paterik]
“To write in Slovenian is to write in fragility,” poet Aleš Šteger said at a New School poetry forum on March 29. He was speaking of his fractured native language. He and Brian…
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The Revisionist by Douglas Crase & Landlocked by Mark Ford (by Rob Crawford)
Here we'll look at two important books of poetry that share the unlikely status of being unavailable from an American publisher. Firstly, Douglas Crase's The Revisionist is a truly exceptional collection of poems. When…
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KGB – Matthew Zapruder & Eileen Myles (by Rob Crawford)
Excellent readings at KGB tonight by Matthew Zapruder and Eileen Myles. An especially full house listened to their work with close attention—prompting Zapruder to note in appreciation between poems, "I really like how quiet…
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Hooray for Helen Forrest
FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945. Since then, the twelfth of April has been a somber day in America. Imagine the mirthless merriment in Hitler's bunker when Goebbels came to…
