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“Letter to Eve” [by Ruth Homberg]
I wanted to make you aThesaurus. Feed you wordsHe defined, and make synonymsfall from your mouth, and be options. Remember,Queen Anne’s Lace was royaltybut now are weeds. On walksthrough Eden you would grasphandfuls and…
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Meet the Press: Tupelo Press Anthologizes Poetry of the Pandemic
Dante Di Stefano: Tupelo Press just released the anthology Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic. Could you tell us a bit about this anthology and its genesis? Kristina Marie Darling: I had the privilege…
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Visigoths Sack Rome [by Joseph-Noel Sylvestre]
"The Sack of Rome in 410 by the Vandals" by Joseph-Noel Sylvestre (1847-1926) at the Musée Paul Valéry. It was the first time in 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign power:…
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Toward “Wife Studies” [by David Lehman]
Cheers [on New Year's] A couple of tears ago I invented a form without being quite aware of it. I wrote a poem consisting mostly of lines lifted from other sources with exactly one…
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Drinking With Grad Students [by James Cummins]
You have to let these poets, half your age,have every way with you they hanker for–like stuff you in a bamboo tiger cage,or stomp your eyeballs on the barroom floor.The beer helps them imagine…
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Ann Kjellberg Presents a Poem by the late Jean Valentine
Hospice I wore his hatas if it was the rumpled coatof his body, like I could put it on. The coat of his hair, of his brain, its glitterhe gave it to me, something…
