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James Merrill’s “Log” [on JM’s Birthday]
James Merrill in Athens, 1971. Photo by Tom Victor. Log Then when the flame forked like a sudden pathI gasped and stumbled, and was less.Density pulsing upward, gauze of ash,Dear light along the way…
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Mark Scroggins on Poetic Fashion
New from "Dispatches from the Poetry Wars," this sartorially slanted column by Mark Scroggins, under the heading "La Derniere mode poetique." Scroggins reports on the annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, which he…
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Song of Gratitude [by Lera Auerbach]
Final notes of Beethoven's Heiliger Dankgesang On Beethoven, my new string quartet, and the eternal Song of Thanks Beethoven wrote his Heiliger Dankgesang as an expression of gratitude for surviving a near-fatal illness. The tradition…
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Bittersweet Worlds [by Nin Andrews]
A few summers ago I was in Maine, looking out from our house at a meadow full of bittersweet when I asked a poet-friend and gardener extraordinaire, “How do you get rid of bittersweet?”…
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Francisco’s Rubén: A Latinx Poet Gathers His Graces [by Michael Dowdy]
After Rubén : A Book Launch for Francisco Aragón with Fellow Macondo Readers takes place on Tuesday, March 3, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Central Library, Latino Collection and Resource Center as…
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Even Bad Books Have Their Charms [by David Lehman]
Even bad books have their charms.Last night I read such a bookthe title of which I shall not mentionnor will I name the book's authorwho thinks that at the end of "Dark Passage"Bogart…
