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  • This Monday at KGB: Rachel Zucker + Yona Harvey

    March 21, 2014

    KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Rachel Zucker + Yona Harvey Monday, March 24, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors…

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  • It is nice to be known, to be called out specially by the uncanny. [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    March 21, 2014

    Dear Bleaders! So a poem is in my head today, and I thought of you. The Song of Wandering Aengus – W. B. Yeats I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire…

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  • David Lehman in the “Zone,” wins the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry

    March 21, 2014

    We just received word that David Lehman has won the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry for his translation of Apollinaire’s “Zone,” which appeared in the journal's Spring 2013 issue. This award…

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  • Iron Mountain (by Mitch Sisskind)

    March 21, 2014

                    Man had a big house outside                 Iron Mountain, his wife hot at                The swimming pool, laughing                  As Nasko Hooten introduced                Himself: 'What kind of…

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  • The Healing Nature of Grief Poetry (by Tammi Truax)

    March 21, 2014

     (Ed note: This is the second in a series of monthly posts by the editors and contributors to The Widows' Handbook. Read the previous post here.)      It is believed that Elizabeth Barrett Browning…

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  • David Lehman in the WSJ on Evelyn Barish’s “The Double Life of Paul de Man”

    March 20, 2014

    Deconstruction of buildings (c) Michael Jantzen The word deconstruction has entered the lexicon. It can mean anything from dissection or exposure to the use of a wrecking ball. "Laws governing how people deconstruct their…

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