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“Perky Cuties I Had a Crush On”: Movies and Beauty [by Mark Strand]
8 / 26 / 09 Dear David Pursuant to our conversation of the other night, the one in which we discussed what various movie stars meant to us, I have decided to write not…
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Bill Knott Says Goodbye
Goodbye If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black. — Bill Knott
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Next Line, Please: Honor Role and a Special Announcement [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's prompt centers on a mix between the homophone and the Freudian slip: create a poem titled "Honor Role" incorporating less of rhyme and more of mix-ups. Words with double meanings, such as…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID WOJAHN [by Nin Andrews]
I I recently moved back to my hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the most exciting events in Charlottesville is their annual Virginia Festival of the Book. In preparation for the festival, I have been reading…
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POETRY FORUM: TERRANCE HAYES, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018 AT 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award in 2010 and was guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2014. His books include How to Be Drawn (Penguin Books, 2015), Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002). Two books, American Sonnets for…
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Next Line, Please: Postcard From the Future [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's prompt, most broadly, was to translate a poem from a language which the author does not know. Next Line, Please contributors were given Armando Frietas Filho’s “Cartão-postal sem fôlego” (“Breathless Postcard”) to translate…
