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So You Think You Know English Literature [by David Lehman]
(1) When Shakespeare wrote about “bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang,” he was referring to(a) the indomitable will of the British people(b) the lamentable condition of churches in the south of…
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In All Ways An American Poet: David Lehman’s “New and Selected Poems” at The New School [by Nora Brooks]
A volume of collected work is an opportunity to reflect on the trajectory of a poet’s life and career, and David Lehman’s essential new book, New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013), reveals threads of…
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If What I Mean Is Hummingbird, If What I Mean Is Fall Into My Mouth [by Natalie Diaz]
In Mojave, the words we use to describe our emotions are literally dragged through our hearts before we speak them—they begin with the prefix wa-, a shortened form of iiwa, our word for heart…
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Losing Farther, Losing Faster: Reading Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” While Trying to Save My Native Language [by Natalie Diaz]
At Fort Mojave, the reservation where I grew up and recently moved back to, I am not a poet—my work is in language revitalization. There are only three living Elder speakers of our…
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A Fistful of Quarters [by Charles Coe]
Last week at work I got this email from someone who lives on my block: Hi neighbors, Just to let you know both our cars were rifled through last night. Neither was locked and…
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Contemporary Canadian Poetry by Eduardo C. Corral
This week I’m featuring the work of Sina Queyras. Elegy for the Letter Q as It Appears in The Waves No question, it was the quality of the quadrangles quailed with queues (in quads)…
