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On the Erotic in Poetry and Literature (part III) [by David Lehman]
In the English canon, I have a special affection for the seduction poems of John Donne and Andrew Marvell. Donne issued robust commands and adorned them in the most outlandish of poetic conceits. The…
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Donald Hall’s Life Work [by David Lehman]
Donald Hall died two days ago. Back in 1988 I reviewed The One Day for the Washington Post. It may be Don’s finest book of poems and it pleased me enormously when we awarded…
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Batter Up! Poems Inspired by Baseball, Thanks to Jim Cummins [by Stacey Lehman]
Johnny Podres, 1955 World Series Game 3 We have our friend Jim Cummins to thank for this podcast of baseball-inspired poems that comes to us from University of Cincinnati Elliston Project. Jim is the…
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Next Line, Please: Your Ghostly Companion [by Virginia Valenzuela]
In Andrei Codrescu's book, The Poetry Lesson, the poet draws upon one of his many interesting teaching strategies to produce a unique sort of assignment. He assigns each student a “ghostly companion”—a poet, any poet,…
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“The Monday morns, the Monday morns . . .”
"Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not…
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Raphael Rubinstein on “the best job in the world” [by Raphael Rubinstein]
<<<One day a novice writer and college dropout submits a short story to a hip literary magazine named for a pair of then notorious avenues on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Although he lives far…
