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“Sestina for Harry [Mathews]” [by Joseph McElroy, with his note on the poem]
SESTINA for HARRY And for Marie Not sure you’re here or where in solitarySplendor. Truth, our life and letters not a wreck Waiting to happen quite yet, your absence less rawThan real — dark,…
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On the deaths of poets [by Susan Lewis]
The recent passing of John Ashbery provided the impetus for this week's final post. Ashbery's death, and those of others I deeply admire, including James Tate and Russell Edson, turned out to disturb me,…
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11-2-2017 (by Mitch Sisskind)
One class of problems – Math people will attest to this – can be clearlyArticulated whereupon It only remains for an Answer to be found Or never to be foundBut finding the answerIs of small significanceAnd even of sad…
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Get on a donkey and read! On Eleni Sikelianos’ “through the lower window” [by Susan Lewis]
The voice of Eleni Sikelianos’ Make Yourself Happy (Coffee House Press, 2017) rings with an infectious energy which is only enlivened by the emergency of which it warns — the critical condition to which…
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TALES FROM UNDER THE PALAPA #4: An Invitation [by Nicholas Triolo]
(Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series about the Todos Santos Writers Workshop, a new under–the-radar program that flourishes in Todos Santos, Mexico. Find the first post, by co-founder Rex Weiner, here,the second, by Bianca Juarez, here, and the third by Joy Wright…
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Waving Back: On Tongo Eisen-Martin’s “Wave at the People Walking Upside-Down” [by Susan Lewis]
A few months ago I had the opportunity to hear Tongo Eisen-Martin read with Rae Armantrout at the Poetry Project. Anyone who has heard this young San Francisco poet recite his exhilarating work…
