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The Pauses between Poems [by Adrienne Su]
Most of the poets I know have been temporarily silenced, at least in verse, by the Covid-19 crisis. Recent months recall the aftermaths of 9/11 and the 2016 presidential election: impossible to write creatively…
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Two Dogs [by Stacey Lehman]
Left: Johnny © Stacey Lehman 2020 R: Whippoorwill © 1974 by Joe Brainard
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Richard Deming Takes On “A Touch of Evil”
Ray Kelly, at "Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Web Resource," reports on the new book by the poet and Yale professor Richard Deming: <<Richard Deming’s Touch of Evil — the latest offering in Bloomsbury Publishing's relaunch…
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“Strangers and Mirrors”: On Two Noirs from Orson Welles [by David Lehman]
Today The American Scholar posted my essay on The Stranger and The Lady from Shanghai, two late 1940s noirs from Orson Welles. Here are the opening paragraphs, with a link to the piece at The American…
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“Abstand” (a dispatch from Berlin) [by Kathleen Heil]
In German, there are various nouns that can be used to convey what we mean by the word distance in English: Zwischenraum, Abstand, the cognate Distanz. With its repellent prefix, Abstand is the one…
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“Beautiful Chaos”: Revised Obit for Hache Carillo (alias Herman Carroll) [in the Washington Post]
On the ambiguities of cultural appropriation, the powers of the imagination, and the great American tradition of springing from your Platonic conception of yourself, this article from today's Washington Post is must reading. It…
