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Don’t “Keep This to Yourself”: Dispatches from Vermont [by Elizabeth Powell]
The Poetry of Kerrin McCadden and the Opioid Crisis This week I will be reporting from my beloved home state of Vermont. Summertime is short here, but it is filled with literary and music…
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Goes Boating [by David Lehman]
Shelley was a classic Leo with Taurus rising. Born on this day (4 August) in 1792, he was the middle man in the greatest double-play combination of all time, Keats to Shelley to Byron.…
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Met Percent: Week Three [by Alec Bernstein]
Almost Gods Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.” – Montaigne Entering the galleries of Greece and Rome was startling, coming as…
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Poem #2 from University of Mississippi, 1957 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Grey SquirrelStudent To cozy up to the Beatnik Girl I joinedThe Folk Music Club. The meetingConsisted of singing to each otherFrom mimeographed pages while A few of them played their guitars. No other males were…
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Why Poets Love Noir #5 [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis in dialogue]
What is the relationship between a Hitchcock movie and the noir genre? Suzanne Lummis:These days, for certain complicated historical reasons, the noir scholars maintain that film noir is not a genre— that most of…
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“Sometimes the cow puts her foot in the bucket” [David Lehman interviews A. R. Ammons (Part III)]
Self Portrait (c) A. R. Ammons 1977 David Lehman A. R. Ammons Interview Part III Find Part II here. Find Part I here.
