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Hudson house–Wallpaper [by Karin Roffman]
In An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein suggests she learned to write by looking at walls. About 1903, she and her brother Leo began amassing what became one of greatest collections of…
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Hoop Dreams: Talk to Her Edition [Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
I’ve said it before but I feel like the most appropriate author photo for a writer with a significant other is a picture of said writer doing something like sitting with their head in…
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However Measured [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? Love is not love which alters when…
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From the KGB Files . . .
Meghan O'Rourke and Ada Limón read from forthcoming books at KGB on Monday. Here are some highlights: Join us on Monday, April 5th to hear Michael Gizzi and Keith Waldrop!
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So That’s How it Should Sound!
Hearing trained actors read poetry is a great pleasure. Actors approach the poems as scripts, and understand how to deliver the lines so that even if they don't make logical sense, they sound beautiful. …
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Other Flowers by James Schuyler (Review by Adam Fitzgerald)
Few poets of the last half of the 20th century were so unembarrassedly Keatsian as the flower-doting, texture-interrogating, word-tasting James Schuyler. Compared with Barbara Guest, Schuyler’s flora and fauna feel less hypothetical and cerebral.…
