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“A waltz through the history of poetry . . . ” Jennifer Michael Hecht reviews David Lehman’s “Poems in the Manner Of”
David Lehman’s new book, Poems in the Manner Of … is a waltz through the history of poetry and a self-portrait in the fun house mirrors of style. “In the manner of” here means sound-alikes, inspired-bys,…
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Where She Threw Up (by Mitch Sisskind)
At Area and at Limelight, two silly Dance clubs of the bygone era, She threw up, and at Café des Artistes, The fine restaurant on 67th Street, Sometimes she threw up there as well.…
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Workshop Dos and Donts [by Alan Ziegler]
I received a gratifying email from a former Columbia MFA student—now a creative writing teacher—about a chapter in my book The Writing Workshop Note Book (Soft Skull / Counterpoint). I am reprinting the…
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Next Line, Please: Hamlet’s Ghostly Presence
This week on Next Line, Please, contributors responded to a prompt which asked for two stanzas, both ending with the phrase, "I could be wrong." Diane Laboda’s “Sabbath” provides awesome tension and complexity around…
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Happy Birthday Mr. B.! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
George Balanchine rehearsing "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (music by Richard Rodgers) with Suzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell, 1968. George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is permanently imprinted on my brain, perhaps because I saw…
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_________ is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth (by Nin Andrews, Nicole Santalucia & David Lehman)
“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.” Philip Larkin 1. This quote from Larkin made me ask myself, _______ are for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. I started to wonder how other…
