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Julia Shipley, Guest Author September 7-11
This week we welcome Julia Shipley as our guest author. Julia is the author of a debut collectionThe Academy of Hay,(Bona Fide Books, 2015) winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. Her first…
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Lehman’s “THE STATE OF THE ART”: “a swift, dishy, insightful, entertaining account of American poetry’s fashions and trajectories . . .”
THE STATE OF THE ARTA Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014By David Lehman198 pp. University of Pittsburgh, $24.95. In 1987, Lehman, the prolific poet, critic and editor, somehow talked Scribner into publishing an annual anthology…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Coversation with Lisa Bayer, Director at the University of Georgia Press
NA: I read on the website that the University of Georgia is a well-established press that has been around since 1938. It publishes 60 to 70 books a year? How many of them…
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September 10, 2015: Reading and Discussion with Donald Berger, Joshua Weiner, and Terence Winch
7:00 p.m. Upshur Street Books 827 Upshur St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20011 (202)726-0380 Come join the conversation with a brilliant triumvirate of poets! Donald Berger: poet and author of The Long Time.…
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STEALING THE CROWN: Sonnet as Reconciliation (Part 4 of 4) [by Laurie Ann Guerrero]
(ed. note: This is part 4 in a 4 part series. Read part 1 here, two here, and three here. sdh) …when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for…
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Tales of the Eighties: A Moment with Mal Waldron [by Alan Ziegler]
August 16 would have been Mal Waldron's 90th birthday (he died in 2002). I spent a moment with him in 1983. “Look,” I say, pointing to a sign in a Greenwich Village club…
