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Happy Birthday Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920-March 9, 1994) by David Lehman
Many artists and writers gather their strength by opposing the established order, but sooner or later the successful ones are assimilated into the culture (Allen Ginsberg, the Beats, Black Mountain, San Francisco). Usually it…
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III. To China: The Library Cave [by Sarah Howe]
[My apologies – after a gruelling flight from London to Beijing yesterday (a journey I’d made in the opposite direction a few days before, coming home for a dear friend’s wedding), I found myself…
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This just in . . . 2013 Prizes for Contributors to *Poetry* Announced
Poetry has announced the winners of eight prizes awarded to poets, critics, essayists and photographers featured in the magazine over the past year August 13, 2013 CHICAGO — Eliza Griswold, Anna Maria Hong (BAP…
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II. To China: Du Fu’s Cottage [by Sarah Howe]
If I could get a mansion with a thousand, ten thousand rooms, A great shelter for all the world’s scholars, together in joy, Solid as a mountain, the elements could not move it.…
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Quote of the Day by Harold Bloom: Discuss
Prose poems…are cheating. (–Harold Bloom, today)
