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Amy Lingafelter: The First Poem I Loved & Why.
I was roughly 18-19, and it was “Hôtel Transylvanie” by Frank O’Hara. It’s on page 350 if you have the big black Collected Poems (University of California Press, 1995) by you now. It's here,…
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A Gorey Moment
By Edward Gorey: Ink and watercolor. From The Broken Spoke, 1976 — sdh
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Introducing Scottish poets 7: Jen Hadfield [by Robyn Marsack]
Hedgehog, Hamnavoe Flinching in my handsthis soiled and studded but good heart,which stippling my cupped palms, breathes – a kidney flinching on a hot griddle,or very small Hell’s Angel, peeled from the vergeof a…
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Perjury Marloff Handicaps the Poets! [by Walter Carey]
In a rare interview with the gun-shy Ms. Marloff, I got her to open up about the current situation in poetry last Friday. First (she said) let me say a few words about the…
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Wordsmith’s A.Word.A.Day: The Cento (featuring David Lehman’s The Oxford Cento)
cento PRONUNCIATION: (SEN-to) MEANING: noun: A literary work, especially a poem, composed of parts taken from works of other authors. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cento (patchwork). Earliest documented use: 1605. NOTES: Nobel-prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot’s…
