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David Lehman Returns to the American Scholar with the Challenge That Started It All
Let’s Do It Again A new crowd-sourced sonnet, one line at a time By David Lehman I’m glad to be back at the helm of “Next Line Please.” I needed the three-month hiatus and…
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On Being a Military Spouse [by Victoria Kelly]
As a guest blogger whose debut collection is about my experiences as a military pilot’s spouse, I would certainly be remiss in not commenting on this part of my life. In my poem, “Heroes,”…
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Victoria Kelly Guest Author October 5-9
This week we welcome Victoria Kelly as our guest author. Victoria graduated from Harvard, Trinity College Dublin, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013 and literary…
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On Meditation [by Victoria Kelly]
Much has been said on the frenetic pace of modern life, and its consequences. Writers have been glorifying the wonders of simplicity for hundreds of years: “Let your affairs be as two or three,…
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Plutonium, Percocet and Nudists: The Best American Poetry 2015 Launch [by Sam O’Hana]
David Lehman introduces the Best American Poetry 2015 launch reading to a full house at the New School on September 24. photo (c) Gabriel Don The publication was a ‘maelstrom’ whipped up by a…
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Latina/o Poets on Liminal Spaces [by Natalie Scenters-Zapico]
When my mother was pregnant with me her constant fear was that I wouldn’t understand her heavy accent, that I wouldn’t speak Spanish, and that we would be forever disconnected at the moment…
