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“Lufthansa” by John Tranter [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
"Lufthansa" is one of Tranter's best and most anthologised poems. The poem is mimetic of one of its early lines: it seems "struck by an acute feeling of precision" which leaves little room for…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 17, 2023
Campbell McGrath’s Fever of Unknown Origin was published on May 9 by Penguin Random House. The title poem takes place as the speaker fights a long illness and is in a hospital right before…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty): Tyrone Williams [by Angela Ball]
Border Clashes We stroll out of El Zocalo to find a world turning white with snow. Not more than an hour ago, or so it seems, it was still just a neighborhood of…
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I Am Trying to Understand — by Lynn Saul
2017 My big sister, Lynn, passed away in 2019. I think about her every day. She was a lawyer, but gave it up to become a poet. This one's about our great-aunt,…
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“Doubting the Doubts” [by David Shapiro]
David Shapiro wishes Jasper Johns a happy birthday (May 15)! Doubting the Doubts A map dropped from my handsAnd a voice cried, From now onYou will proceed in darkness.Alas, he laughed, that is true.…
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How the Times Reviewed Fitzgerald, Forster, Woolf, Henry James et al
YThis is how reviewers at the NY Times treated certain books: Scott Fitzgerald:“Bad news is best blurted out at once: ‘Tender Is the Night’ is a disappointment. Though it displays Mr. Fitzgerald’s most engaging…
