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The Fork in the Road: On Frost’s Misunderstood Masterwork [by David Lehman]
Not the least of Robert Frost’s accomplishments is that he managed to balance popularity with artistic excellence. Take “The Road Not Taken” (1920), arguably his most famous poem. You probably read it in high…
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On Reverence [by Lauren Hilger]
[a conversation with short story writer and playwright, Abuchi Modilim] LH: I’ve been thinking about reverence and how to define it for myself. What makes you reverent of some writers (beyond just admiring their…
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On the Juicy Tube [by Lauren Hilger]
Today I offer a meditation on the 2000s cultural power icon: Lancôme’s Juicy Tube. A generation's foray to makeup. Let’s consider together an object that stands as a symbol, an antique, a kind of…
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“B-Flat Elegy” [by Stanley Moss]
Stanley tells us he wrote this poem as an elegy for Richard Howard. "The poem is not a home run, it's a bunt, and I'm running as fast as I can to first base."…
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A Conversation with Dante Di Stefano, Part 3 [by Nin Andrews and Amanda Rabaduex]
NA: You said in the first part of this interview series that you collaborate with your wife on community poetry projects through the Tioga Arts Council in upstate New York, which she runs. And…
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Five years on: On Reading with Jerome Sala and David Shapiro at the Zinc Bar Last evening [by David Lehman]
What a pleasureto read withJerome Sala andmy old Columbiaand Clare colleges’chum, David Shapiro,at the ZincBar last evening. Jerome read first.His corporate sonnetsreflect years oflabor that Marxwould characterize asalienated in thetall tower ofTime and…
