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Doug Lang in America (Terence Winch)
In 1973, the last American ground troops left Vietnam, the World Trade Center opened for business, the Watergate scandal rolled downhill, the IRA bombing campaign was in full swing. Agnew resigned. Allende was overthrown. …
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“Northwest Passage” (by James Richardson)
Northwest Passage That faint line in the dark might be the shore of some heretofore unknown small hour. This fir-scent on the wind must be the forests of the unheard of month between July…
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Re-reading The South Orange Sonnets (Terence Winch)
I do a great deal of my reading on the Washington subway, as a daily commuter to and from my job in DC. (Iām one of the few poets I know who works a…
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New Yorker article on The Wren! (by Mitch Sisskind)`
This week’s New Yorker has an article on the Amherst Belle — a snoozer as one might expect, a reverent nosegay, soporifically predictable, a term paper for the readership database. However, there is one…
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“Multiform” [by Florence Cassen Mayers]
Multiform The formof a poem is part of its meaning. Form’sa way to get the poem written. Formalistpoets rely on formto get frombeginning to end. Inventive poets alter form, often they reformformor formnew forms.…
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Ireland Over Here: Inventing Irish-American Poetry (Terence Winch)
Yesterday I wrote about my friend Tim Dlugos, the tremendously gifted poet who died of AIDS in 1990. Thinking of Tim calls to mind a makeshift reading tour Tim, Michael Lally, Ed Cox, and…
