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Poetry in Transylvania [by Lloyd Schwartz]
Ed note: This week we'll be posting Lloyd Schwartz's reports from the Poets in Transylvania festival. Lloyd is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and teaches in the MFA Program at UMass Boston. His…
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Latina/o Poets On Liminal Spaces: A Conversation with Erika L. Sánchez [by Natalie Scenters-Zapico]
I first encountered Erika L. Sánchez’s work in a library at the University of New Mexico. Erika had graduated a few years before me, and I was working on a manuscript that would one…
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Sinatra’s Century by David Lehman: In Bookstores on October 27
Sinatra’s Century by David Lehman In this set of affectionate and vibrant fan’s notes, poet and critic Lehman (A Fine Romance) celebrates Ol’ Blue Eyes’s 100th birthday (December 12) with 100 impressionistic reflections on the…
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Blues #5 [by Cleis Abeni]
What kind of form are the blues? When I say form, I do not only mean traditional verse forms like the sonnet. Everything that is intelligently conceived has form even if that structure is…
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Blues #4 [by Cleis Abeni]
It’s one thing to suggest the opposite of what you mean—classic verbal irony. But, what if two different statements suggesting the opposite of their meaning follow each other in tandem. Then, what if these…
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Tales of the Nineties: What He Does [by Alan Ziegler]
Ralph works for EMS. He never talks about what he does. One night, we’re all watching the local news. The reporter describes a triple murder in the Bronx, and says, “One of the…
