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Three Cheers: Poems by Cayanan, Lehman, Musakovska in “The Common,” April 2023
The CommonPoetry editor John HennessyApril Is Poetry Month: New Poems By Our Contributors MARK ANTHONY CAYANAN, DAVID LEHMAN, and YULIYA MUSAKOVSKA (translated by the author and OLENA JENNINGS) The RemedyBy David Lehman Although I do not havethe remedy for…
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In Honor of the Late John Tranter [by Thomas Moody]
John Tranter, one of the foremost figures in Australian poetry over the last half-century, died earlier this week aged 79. Perhaps no one has done more than Tranter, as poet, editor, anthologist, publisher, critic…
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Laurence Goldstein, Editor and Poet, 1/5/1943 – 4/16/2023, Ann Arbor
On April 16th we lost Larry Goldstein, longtime editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review (32 years!), an inspired anthologist, editor, poet, and professor at the University of Michigan. I have often said that the…
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Squib 498, after Frank O’Hara [by Alan Ziegler]
It is 5:43 p.m. in New York a Saturdayone day before my birthday, yesand the Manhattanville Viaduct with her face on it. and I am sweating a lot by now (because it's August) and…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: April 26, 2023
Eileen Myles has done it once again—delivering poems so deceptively simple this reader is shocked by the intimacies and revelations within. In a “working life,” they make it look easy—this dance between the scrupulous…
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Musical Plagiarism Then and Now [by Lewis Saul]
Musical plagiarism was an accepted practice in the 17th and 18th centuries. In fact, is was considered more of an homage. When discovering the works of Vivaldi, Bach went to work on rewriting them…
