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Roy Hargrove Dead at Forty-Nine [by David Lehman]
The most talented trumpeterof his generation,who playedfor us in Albany,used to hang outat Smalls, thatlow-ceilinged cellarnear us wherehe proved he could sing,a bonus,because we came for his trumpet“Whisper Not,”and when Cyrille Aimée sings “Love for Sale”and…
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Next Line, Please: Like People in Novels [by Virginia Valenzuela]
“We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. “The Gauge of Dissonance,” by Aaron Fagan uses the line as an epigraph. The title gets us started on a…
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A Visit to Winchester [by Tami Haaland]
I was in Winchester, England, this week to offer a poetry workshop at Winchester College, a boarding school founded in 1382. The students, teachers, and I met in a room of the college library.…
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Hip hop: the geopoetic culture of the universal citizen [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: “Gegegay’s High School” @Kota Sugawara Hip hop history resides in the empowered shade of Mae West that hovers over Tokyo Gegegay’s Pachinko cabaret Choreography: Tokyo Gegegay/Performers: Mikey, Bow, Marie, Miku et Yuyu Far…
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Daryl Sznyter’s Synonyms [by Abigail Anne Frankfurt]
Daryl Sznyter’s debut collection of poem, Synonyms for (OTHER) Bodies is a raw, honest book that takes the reader beneath the poet’s flesh. The narrator’s voice in the first poem, “The Virgin to Gabriel,”…
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Fashion and Beauty with Poetess Vinny: Going Back to School [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Dear Poetess Vinny, I’m considering graduate school to earn an MFA in Creative Writing. I’m in my late forties, a mother, and my main concern is how to present myself in a university setting.…
