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A Case For Elastic Rhyme by J. Chester Johnson
Let me propose an additional instrument to the array we poets already enjoy at our disposal when we put our poems together. I call it “elastic rhyme,” and I’ve been using it here and…
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Return of The Epic by J. Chester Johnson
We should not suppose this return connotes a literary topography akin to PARADISE LOST, BHAGAVAD GITA of the MAHABHARATA, or THE ILIAD. Of course, we don’t think of ourselves as poets engaged in preserving,…
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Celebrate Rising Russian and American Poets including Heather Christle, Tina Chang, Matthew Yeager
When: Monday, October 15, 2012 at 7pm Where: New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch, The Corner Room, 40th St. & 5th Avenue, (diagonally across from the main building) NYC Cost: Free Description: Carrying forward…
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Midrash
Effort is its own reward. We are here to do, and through doing to learn; and through learning to know; and through knowing to experience wonder; and through wonder to attain wisdom; and through…
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The Double Life For Poets by J. Chester Johnson
Is there reason to be especially concerned should, for economic or other reasons, the number of available teaching jobs in creative writing be increasingly inadequate to accommodate new MFA graduates with a concentration in…
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My Quote for the Day — from Susan Sontag
<<< All political language is alienated. Political language as such is the enemy. (Joseph [Brodsky's] posiiton). >>> — Susan Sontag, entry for 12/ 6 / 77, in As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals…
