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Like a Golf Ball (by Mitch Sisskind)
A poem is like a golf ball because A poem’s meaning derives from The multifarious denotations And connotations of words Compressed within the poem As in a golf ball tightly packed Rubber bands…
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Poetry Forum: Alan Ziegler, Tuesday, April 8, 2014 6:30 PM
The New School 66 West 12th Street, Room A510 New York, NY 10011 Alan Ziegler, the editor of Short: An International Anthology of 500 Years of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short…
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Lisbon Mon Amour [by Howard Altmann]
It happens I am a fool. It happens I’m rather good at being a fool. It happens I am at my foolish best in Lisbon. I wish it weren’t so. I wish I could…
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The Tropical Roundup: Bits from the West Coast [by Emma Trelles]
In the quest for a happier, better informed NaPoMo, The Tropical Roundup has returned. This is essentially where I post random or thematically or geographically linked tidbits from Poetry Land. Or culled from news,…
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Wilfred Owen: ‘The Last Laugh’ or ‘Dulce…?’ [by Howard Altmann]
I was compelled last week to reach out to Sydney Lea––Vermont’s current Poet Laureate––as three short essays of his, “Surviving Romance,” appeared in the spring issue of Traveltainted (Turtle Point Press) and were so…
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David Lehman’s Translation of Apollinaire’s “Zone” Live at VQR
We recently announced that David Lehman's translation of Apollinaire's "Zone" won the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. You can now read this wonderful poem over at VQR Online. From VQR:…
