-
Hump Day Highlights
Another terrific review, this one by Grace Cavelieri, in this month's Washington Review of Books: "Lehman is a combination of Mark Twain, Charlie Rose and John Le Carre with a little John Donne thrown…
-
On Best of Lists by Vandana Khanna
It’s that time of the year when everything is strangely candy-cane scented and glittering with a tourniquet of lights. We are anxious with our lists, with our need to prove our thoughtfulness. We…
-
My First-Ever Blog Post Accompanied by a Confession by Vandana Khanna
I feel it’s only right to confess something in my first-ever blog post, (deep breath): I like to read other people’s blogs, especially poets I don’t know personally. For the past decade or…
-
Poem by Tommy Pico [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders! It's been about six months since my last post – I've been super busy getting my two new books to press. They both came out last month and it's been very exciting…
-
Review: Major Jackson at The New School’s Poetry Forum with David Lehman (By Nora Brooks)
In the last poetry forum of the fall season at the New School, poet and Harvard Review poetryeditor Major Jackson sat down with Best American Poetry series editor David Lehman after a moving reading…
-
An Evening in Celebration of Marie Ponsot [by Karen Steinmetz]
Marie Ponsot held us in her spell, reading with radiant authority and a deep pleasure in the power and play of language at the University Club, NYC, where friends and family gathered Nov. 19…
