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Two Versions of Marianne Moore’s “The Past is the Present” [by David Lehman]
Marianne Moore didn't make it easy on us. She revised her poems, and often the later versions are radically different from and vastly inferior to the original.Thanks to the latest scholarship, I have learned…
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A Dare to Be Unconventional: Nin Andrews and Dante Di Stefano Discuss Miss August (CavanKerry Press, 2017)
DD: In his introduction to the anthology Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present,David Lehman notes: “Writing a prose poem can therefore seem like accepting a dare to be unconventional. It is a…
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Groucho’s Last Stand!
The one and only. . ."They're tearing down part of your old neighborhood." "That's not coincidental," says Julius (Groucho) Marx,, who lived on 93rd Street and went to PS 86 in NYC. "Ladies and gentlemen,…
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What exactly does the Word create? (by Jenny Factor)
In my John Milton class at Brandeis University (I am there attending school), time spent occasionally talking about God is evidently time spent talking about the relation between literary texts and religious ones.…
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Paris dispatch: waters rising, justice done, talking birds crow, humans aflutter, news spreads [by Tracy Danison]
A remarkably rare candid moment in the world's behavior, "La Femme et l'oiseau" by Parisian engraver and illustrator France Dumas captures a bird in her bird mask, perchance to chatter, perchance to take wing …
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Epigraph of the Month: Felix Culpa wins the day [by Goethe, via Bulgakov]
<<< "Who art thou, then?" "Part of that Power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good." — Goethe, Faust >>> Epigraph to The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). Bulgakov began his…
