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The Comics of Lydia Conklin [introduced by Alan Michael Parker]
The comics of novelist and cartoonist Lydia Conklin bristle with wondrous unfillable silences, à la Samuel Beckett, and wacky pointedness worthy of Roz Chast. Conklin’s especially terrific at the stare-down. But it’s her timing…
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Bad Workshops [by Alan Michael Parker]
In the Spring of 2013, I taught the worst undergraduate poetry workshop ever. The students were marvelous and curious and smart; the writing distinctive; the books were scintillating; the visiting poets I brought wow,…
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“A Woe of Ecstasy” [by David Lehman]
"A woe of ecstasy" — Emily Dickinson's phrase: run with it. "Next Line, Please" invites you to write a brief poem beginning with this striking phrase. In Handbags, Purses, and Wallets
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Walter Lehmann [by David Lehman]
Have you heard of Walter Lehmann? I write about Uncle Walter's poetry in the new issue of John Tranter's Journal of Poetics Research. <<< Among my father’s cousins, Walter Lehmann was…
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Frank O’Hara: “A Step Away from Them”
It's my lunch hour, so I go forfor a walk among the hum-coloredcabs. First, down the sidewalkwhere laborers feed their dirtyglistening torsos sandwichesand Coca-Cola, with yellow helmetson. They protect them from fallingbricks, I guess.…
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Ours is a Long Love Song: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Nate Marshall’s Wild Hundreds
Wild HundredsNate Marshall University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 In the year or so since Wild Hundreds first appeared in print, Nate Marshall’s award winning debut poetry collection feels even more necessary in the wake…
