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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Luke Hankins of Orison Books
DD: In her poem, “Ennui,” Stella Vinitchi Radulescu refers to Rainer Maria Rilke as her “father up / in the sky.” If there is any poet who embodies the mission of Orison Books it…
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Vaginal perplexity 1: trolling for a scientific method along the Coulée verte [by Tracy Danison]
From what I could gather from her pretty seamless but warm manner, Karine was pretty enthusiastic about my Theory of Vaginal Perplexity. In any case, she kept me talking about it for nearly an…
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The Solitary Life (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
When I was young, I went to Woodstock one day to visit the artist Clarence Schmidt. Clarence lived alone in a treehouse. The property he owned had rusted automobiles, wooden stakes with dolls’ heads…
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On the Past Denied (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Dearest Bleaders, Photographer Reuben Radding and I have again matched a poem of mine, from my most recent book Who Said (Copper Canyon, 2013) to one of his recent photographs. The poem, you'll likely note,…
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince [ by Charles Coe ]
It was late night in a gritty little Roxbury convenience store, winter of '83, years before the Boston real estate boom that brought a flood of young professionals, when most blocks had at least…
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Red Warren [by Jay Parini]
In my mid-twenties, I moved from Scotland to New Hampshire, taking up a teaching job at Dartmouth. I recall that I missed Scotland very badly, especially as I had established a close relationship with…
