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“The Dreyfus Affair” [by David Lehman]
Louis Begley writes well and is a good guide to one of modern history's great tragic causes celebres, the court-martial of French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus [left] on trumped-up charges of treason in 1894. The…
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“Intellect, anxiety, philosophy, history, art”: Rachel Abramowitz and Tina Cane in Conversation [by Kristina Marie Darling]
It is a pleasure to introduce this conversation by two outstanding and generous literary citizens: Tina Cane and Rachel Abramowitz. In both writers' bodies of work, we see a poetics powered by community, enriched…
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Complain, Complain: Poems about writing poetry [by Katha Pollitt]
Complain, Complain: Poems about Writing Poetry by Katha Pollitt (pictured below left, reading at KGB Bar) Have you ever noticed how many modern poems there are in which the poet complains…
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Said Disraeli to Gladstone. . .
At a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease." Disraeli replied, "That all depends, Sir, upon whether I embrace…
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Poet Spotlight: Cole Swensen [by Kristina Marie Darling]
It's truly an honor to introduce this new work by acclaimed poet Cole Swensen. Here, she offers a complex and gorgeously lyrical phenomenology of perception, deftly interrogating the ways that language shapes one's experience…
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Fifteen Years On: Bezanson, Bibbins, Deming, Lehman, Yeager Remain in Fashion
In 2007, the Italian magazine Io Donna devoted a section of their men's issue to what New York poets were wearing. Here's the evidence. Top row: Mark Bibbins (left), Matthew Yeager. Second row: David…
