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“I am usually a decisive person, but . . . ” David Lehman on this week’s “Next Line, Please.”
Over at the American Scholar, David Lehman has been mid-wife (?) to a crowd-sourced sestina. The poem is nearly finished. Here's what he has to say about the sestina-to-date: I am usually a decisive person, but…
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Who? (by Mitch Sisskind)
Sixth grade, a new kid came, Fat kid, terrible at sports, But a genius, played the violin, And when we got math workbooks On the first day of sixth grade He finished the workbook…
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Tales of the Nineties: Give Me a Name [by Alan Ziegler]
Now retired from his laundry route but still working at the motel Saturdays and Sundays, my father goes to the racetrack almost every weekday—Aqueduct fall and winter, Belmont spring and summer. Some days he…
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My Borderlands: Location “of Potent Unresolve” [by Mari L’Esperance]
The following is adapted from Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage, a piece I wrote for Discover Nikkei in January 2013. • “I wish to work perpetually on the borders—to…
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Phil Levine & the Burger Bitch [by Kate Daniels]
photo (c) Vanderbilt University About twenty years ago in Nashville, when Philip Levine was Vanderbilt University’s visiting writer, there was a Burger King on 21st Avenue South, at the edge of the college’s magnolia-fringed…
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Malinda Markham: Felt Intelligence, Compassionate Interiority [by Mari L’Esperance]
American poet Malinda Markham was just 44 years old when she died in September 2012. I didn’t know Malinda intimately, but she and her intense, quiet poems made a deep impression on me.…
