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Next Line, Please: Pierre Loves Natasha [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please, David Lehman gave us an enticing first line based on a two-clause summary of Tolstoy's classic, War and Peace. NLP contributors went many ways with the prompt, some playing…
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How can poetry thrive in the digital age? David Lehman shows the way! Tuesday, May 15th at 7pm
Join us and Harper’s Magazine on Tuesday, May 15th at 7pm as David Lehman discusses Next Line, Please at Book Culture on Columbus! 450 Columbus Ave. New York, NY In this book, David Lehman, the longtime series editor of the Best American Poetry, offers…
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Poem: On Reading with Jerome Sala and David Shapiro at the Zinc Bar Last Night a Year Ago [by David Lehman]
It was a first rate audience in every sense. Jerome read first. His corporate sonnets reflect years of labor that Marx would characterize as alienated in the tall tower of Time and Life on…
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On your birthday, Willie Mays, we tip our caps to you [by Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider]
We got together in secret the other day and discussed the center field positionWe decided among ourselves you are the greatest in New York, which means everywhere. Sincerely, Joe DiMaggio,Mickey MantleDuke Snider
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It’s her party and she’ll laugh if she wants to [Happy birthday to you, Nin Andrews!]
(c) Nin Andrews. Inspired by Chapter "2000" in The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry 1988-2014 by David Lehman originally posted on April 20, 2015.
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Introducing Paris Performance Calendar – [by Tracy Danison]
“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy. There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it one of the first refinements of polished society.” “Certainly, Sir; and it has…
