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Mystery Authors Who Write Fast (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
In her posthumously published autobiography, Agatha Christie revealed that she wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles, her first detective novel, in two weeks. Ed McBain wrote his early 87th precinct novels in about a…
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Improved by the Ashbery-Tinsley “Improvement”: Poems & Cocktails at Back Forty [by Stacey Harwood]
L to R: Chef Pacifico, Peter Hoffman, and Bob Holman The idea was genius, cooked up by Tree Swenson of the Academy of American Poets and poetry-loving restaurateur Peter Hoffman (Back Forty, Savoy): Take…
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“When that I was and a little tiny boy”
(posted by Rob Crawford)When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.But when I came to…
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Walt Whitman Reads “America” and Gets Naked (by Rob Crawford)
What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than with Walt Whitman reading from his poem "America."(First four lines are preserved; click through for poem text.)He reads so slowly! And afterwards, he gets…
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Letter from David Lehman: The New School Establishes the Paul Violi Poetry Prize
Dear Friends, At the New School's Writing Program, we're happy to make it official: We're establishing the Paul Violi Poetry Prize at the New School. We will give out an award annually to the…
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Found in Translation [by Stephanie Paterik]
“To write in Slovenian is to write in fragility,” poet Aleš Šteger said at a New School poetry forum on March 29. He was speaking of his fractured native language. He and Brian…
