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“Misgivings” by William Matthews
“Perhaps you’ll tire of me,” muses my love, although she’s like a great city to me, or a park that finds new ways to wear each flounce of light and investiture of weather. Soil…
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More on Jacques Barzun by Jamie Katz
We've received a few comments in response to David's post about Jacques Barzun, who died on October 25th at the age of 104. Here's an excerpt from a piece by our friend Jamie Katz,…
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Why you should go to AWP [by Kate Gale]
October 26th, 2012AWP I’m in Seattle for AWP 2014 planning. The next AWP is in Boston, March 6-9, 2013. I am always telling young poets that they should go to AWP. Here’s why. You…
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Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012 [by David Lehman]
Jacques Barzun, intellectual historian, legendary Columbia professor, mentor, essayist, man of letters, has passed away at the age of 104. Perhaps in an effort to point to his great versatility, the NY Times obit…
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Brendan Constantine, the many poets of Los Angeles
October 25th, 2012 Los Angeles will soon have its first city laureate. It’s a great honor for a city to have a poet laureate, and in the process of choosing someone, what we…
