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Tales of the Sixties: Allen Ginsberg’s Three Days in Schenectady [by Alan Ziegler]
Prologue: In late 1967, an English professor asked me to be Allen Ginsberg’s escort for his February 13 reading at Union College: “I think he’d be more comfortable with a student.” I wrote Ginsberg to…
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Sandy and Friends Say Good Luck to the Cubs and Indians [by David Lehman]
Special to The Best American Poetry blog After the Dodgers were eliminated last night in the "friendly confines" of Wrigley Field in Chicago, where the Cubs under Theo Epstein's executive management triumphed 5-0, an emergency…
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Scientists confirm human feline ancestry but President tight-lipped as Assembly radicals press for replacement action [by Paul Tracy Danison]
Secretary Mimi, caught by a security camera, hurrying away after her ‘secret speech’ to the Intergalactic Interspecies Assembly in the Paris Catacombs last Friday. In the background, long-time “good friend” and companion, Assembly…
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Shelf-Reading the: Look No. 1 Continued on Stephanie Brown’s “Stacks” [by Heather J. Macpherson]
Before I continue with the second half of my essay, I would like to thank Managing Editor, Stacy Harwood-Lehman for giving me the opportunity as a guest blogger this week on BAP. I cannot…
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Shelf-Reading the: Look No. 1 at Stephanie Brown’s “Stacks” [by Heather J. Macpherson]
The following is part one of my commentary on Stephanie Brown's poem "Stacks." I first encountered Stephanie Brown’s poetry in The Body Electric: America’s Best American Poetry from The American Poetry Review (W.W.…
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An Interview with Stephanie Brown, Part 3: The Ring Lardner Reference, Skepticism & Foreign Countries
Part 3 concludes my interview with Stephanie. I look forward to posting commentary on her poem "Stacks" on Thursday and Friday. Another one of your poems from Domestic Interior, "Self-Portrait at the End…
