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Mother Died Today [by David Lehman]
Mother died today. That's how it began. Or maybe yesterday, I can't be sure. I gave the book to my mother in the hospital. She read the first sentence. Mother died today. She laughed…
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Impressively “and-and”: Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales [by Tracy Danison]
"And-and" – performance and dance, high and low, side by side, up and down, back and front, blue and red – is as much part of Rencontres' tradition as of its esthetic mission: Lisbeth Gruwez…
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Next Line, Please: Pierre Loves Natasha [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please, David Lehman gave us an enticing first line based on a two-clause summary of Tolstoy's classic, War and Peace. NLP contributors went many ways with the prompt, some playing…
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How can poetry thrive in the digital age? David Lehman shows the way! Tuesday, May 15th at 7pm
Join us and Harper’s Magazine on Tuesday, May 15th at 7pm as David Lehman discusses Next Line, Please at Book Culture on Columbus! 450 Columbus Ave. New York, NY In this book, David Lehman, the longtime series editor of the Best American Poetry, offers…
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Poem: On Reading with Jerome Sala and David Shapiro at the Zinc Bar Last Night a Year Ago [by David Lehman]
It was a first rate audience in every sense. Jerome read first. His corporate sonnets reflect years of labor that Marx would characterize as alienated in the tall tower of Time and Life on…
