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Met Percent: Week Five [by Alec Bernstein]
Streams and Mountains Without End I did some Met mezzanine stuff, but now the second floor . . . China: The landscape in length: “The Mountains in Fog” is a scroll (1’ high and…
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SAVE THE DATE: September 19, 2019, The Best American Poetry 2019 Launch Reading
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST). The Auditorium, Room A106, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall. 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 The celebration to kickoff fall in NYC! Series editor David Lehman and guest…
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Why We Paint it Noir [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
Why are poets attracted to film noir? Suzanne Lummis: Well, out this way there aren’t as many poets who double as film noir buffs as one would expect, but, for some, my YouTube…
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Auden Changes His Mind [by David Lehman]
Here it is again: September 1, 1939, eighty years later. Can you picture Auden at that "dive" on Fifty-Second Street, (aka Swing Street) on that terrible day when the Germans invaded Poland and quaked…
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“September 1, 1939” [by W. H. Auden]
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing…
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For Summer: Florida Poets: Adrian Castro [by Emma Trelles]
The Sound Of One Immigrant Clappingafter Czeslaw Miloszby Adrian CastroLet's say he actually did not arrive on a boat– that the relentless colonel never found his subtle throat hidden under the trance of the…
