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Get on a donkey and read! On Eleni Sikelianos’ “through the lower window” [by Susan Lewis]
The voice of Eleni Sikelianos’ Make Yourself Happy (Coffee House Press, 2017) rings with an infectious energy which is only enlivened by the emergency of which it warns — the critical condition to which…
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TALES FROM UNDER THE PALAPA #4: An Invitation [by Nicholas Triolo]
(Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series about the Todos Santos Writers Workshop, a new under–the-radar program that flourishes in Todos Santos, Mexico. Find the first post, by co-founder Rex Weiner, here,the second, by Bianca Juarez, here, and the third by Joy Wright…
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Waving Back: On Tongo Eisen-Martin’s “Wave at the People Walking Upside-Down” [by Susan Lewis]
A few months ago I had the opportunity to hear Tongo Eisen-Martin read with Rae Armantrout at the Poetry Project. Anyone who has heard this young San Francisco poet recite his exhilarating work…
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Are two epigraphs better than one?
John Updike attaches two epigraphs to Rabbit as Rich (1981), the third in his tetralogy of novels centering on Rabbit Angstrom. The reader can more easily grasp the pertinence of the first epigraph than…
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David Lehman as a Spy [poem by Lucas Smith]
(Ed note: I can't begin to count the number of times I've heard David introduced before a reading. These introductions are always respectful, sometimes celebratory, and often quite eloquent. The introduction below , written and…
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Endarkenment is the Mother of Beauty: on Michael Palmer’s “A Dream of Sound Inside the Mountain” [by Susan Lewis]
In his most recent book, Laughter of the Sphinx (New Directions, 2016) Michael Palmer gifts us with his characteristically spare and muscular lyricism, as rich and musical as it is bleak. In the meantime,…
