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“From a Rome Book” [by Clark Coolidge]
The man walked down gradually under the handholds.The time it takes to spy the letters and mark them.In this whiteness of lights the words seem toinch into each board of page. Either that or…
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WORKING SPACE: BALANCE [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
A poem, a painting, a poem. Dickinson, Vermeer, Stevens. Here's Emily Dickinson's poem, "There's a certain Slant of light" (#258 in the Johnson edition, #320 in the Franklin edition): There's a certain Slant…
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WORKING SPACE: GET CLOSER [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
It's James Thurber's birthday today. In his quasi-fairy tale, The Thirteen Clocks, time is frozen; the warm hand of Saralinda can do nothing to set the clocks ticking again. I've always loved its strange…
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Saturday, December 12: Celebrate the Best American Poetry 2020
We're not going gentle into the end of 2020! Join us this Saturday for a celebration of Unamuno Author @PaisleyRekdal's selection for @BestAmPo 2020 Anthology! RSVP: https://t.co/tZfNxlOScl 🥳🤠🤗@DesperateLit #Unamuno53 pic.twitter.com/f1dWMdbBtQ — Unamuno Authors Series…
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“Dear John Ashbery” [by Nicole Santalucia]
Dear John Ashbery It doesn’t seem to matter if we are a hundred pages ahead or two hundred behind. Everything compared to a sack of melons is sour, which has something to do with…
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WORKING SPACE: CLOSE [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
I am thinking these days about one of my favorite ekphrastic poems, Alice Fulton's "Close," the first poem in Felt (W. W. Norton, 2001). It responds to Joan Mitchell's "White Territory," but I hadn't…
