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Patricia Carlin Picks a poem by Elaine Equi (““A Woman of the Wrong Altitude”)
For the first week of this new decade [i.e. January 3, 2010), I’ve chosen “A Woman of the Wrong Altitude” by Elaine Equi (Barrow Street, Summer 2007). Among many other pleasures the poem offers, it’s…
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Geoffrey Young: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Geoff Young, Dec 2020. Background– painting (detail) by Morgan Bulkeley, called 'Facing Heroes.' Photo by Lillian Anderson. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ His Apprenticeship Never Occurred to Me While I Was out Surfing I want to thank…
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“Playing the Market” [by Ron Horning]
If you believe you’re young, in love, it’s impossible to look fora job without reading want ads, even if you know most arescreening tools for employment agencies, and even the fewlegitimate ones are for…
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Announcing “101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium” [eds. Matthew E. Silverman and Nancy Naomi Carlson]
101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium edited by Matthew E. Silverman and Nancy Naomi Carlson (Ashland Poetry Press) is here. The editors write: <<< In the face of rising antisemitism, we feel this…
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“Whom do you write your poems for?” [by Katha Pollitt]
It’s easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of various sorts, college-educated, over…
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Three Poems (by Mitch Sisskind)
The Old Pogue The Old Pogue said, ‘Class with just a touch of ‘Wicked sleaze, or more than a touch, right, boys? ‘Admit it. Class plus wicked sleaze is what we want ‘In women.…
