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The Corrections
What, in two words, is wrong with this sentence from Jonathan Culler's "Introduction: Critical Paradigms" in the October 2010 issue of the PMLA: <<The future of literary criticism will doubtless depend, in part, on…
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Leon Uris and the Power of Words (by Larry Epstein)
It's been fifty years since the film version of Exodus was released. I first read the book when I was thirteen, and, though I didn't know history well enough to grasp the full power…
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Are There Iconic Contemporary American Poems? A BAPB Roundtable [by Dean Rader]
Earlier in the year, a student in my Contemporary American Poetry class asked me if there were any "great" contemporary American poems. I told her there were many great ones, including, for example, everything…
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“An Epiphany”: poem by Nicole Santalucia, art by David Lehman
An Epiphany arrived in the mail today a gouache something poisonous Vermilion it couldn't be An extension of a poet like orange paint in the hands of a mailman traveling to the year 1994…
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Is San Francisco to Poetry What New York Is to Fiction? [by Dean Rader]
Rice-a-Roni. The delightful situation comedy Full House, starring Bob Saget and the Olsen Twins. Fog. Journey. Fisherman's Wharf. Earthquakes. The Gap. That Mark Twain quote about the coldest winter that Mark Twain did not…
