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The dark fantastical world of the poet Wu Niaoniao [by Eleanor Goodman]
In the documentary film Iron Moon, quotes from this poem reoccur three times: Rhapsody on the Advance of Heavy Snow A snow factory in the sky. Mechanical assembly line angels, stand day…
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What If You Slept [by Nin Andrews]
("What If You Slept" has always been one of my favorite poems.) The other day I was listening to two of my poet-friends complain bitterly about their parents. Among other things, they talked of…
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“The Jerk” [by David Lehman]
Some six years ago, Rick Moody and I were asked to talk about — and write about — Bob Dylan. Rick and I did our thing one enjoyable evening — in January 2011, I…
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“V’Dovid Yafeh Einayim. . .”
<<< David had beautiful eyes, a shepherd among the lilies. David had beautiful eyes, a shepherd among the lilies. Saul smote his thousands, and David his tens of thousands. David, King of Israel, lives,Lives to this day.…
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A Product’s Story, A Worker’s Story [by Eleanor Goodman]
The poet Zheng Xiaoqiong does not herself appear in the documentary film Iron Moon, a movie about worker-poets surviving in contemporary China, but her poetry does. Zheng has worked a die-mold factory, a magnetic tape…
