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Is Poetry Kaput? [by Michelle Rochefoucauld]
It used to be God whose decomposing corpse made the big stink. Nietzsche announced the death. Freud put forth the exposition in The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontents. In its…
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Jan Steen, “The Drawing Lesson,” circa 1665.
Jan Steen, The Drawing Lesson, ca. 1665, Oil on panel, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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“Let’s Make a List” [by Tom Disch]
It's always a delight to stumble upon a new, previously uncollected poem by a master. Here is a poem Tom Disch wrote in December 2007. Let's Make a List The letter Lhas cast her…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: JANUARY 11, 2023
If you are, like me, endlessly fascinated with the sonnet and all it can hold, you’ll want to get yourself a copy of The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays by Dora…
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Charles Simic (1938-2023) [by David Lehman]
The saddest moments in my life as an editor occur when word reaches me that a guest editor in The Best American Poetry series has passed away. Charlie died some five months shy of…
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Non-Narrative Cinema [by Lewis Saul]
Fade to black. Wiggly dissolve. Cut to a super: Ext. 1982. A movie theater marquee advertising E.T. .I'm dating the woman who is now my wife (40 years and counting). As we're leaving the…
