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For Summer: Florida Poets: Angela Narciso Torres [by Emma Trelles]
flamingo hammock palm, 24 x 24 in. oil on canvas, eleanor blair Harvesting the Heartby Angela Narciso Torres In Florida, I shall eat a palm seed…
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Roger Gilbert speaking on A. R. Ammons’s “Speaking”
From August 2-4, Cornell University professor Roger Gilbert is hosting "Archie in the Archives," a symposium devoted to the poetry of A. R. Ammons and to Ammons treasures to be found in the Cornell…
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“To Summer” [by David Lehman]
Shall I compare a season to a day, a woman to a body like a violin?Summer is the reason for my grin,and on that violin I would play. In the nave of her church I…
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Poem from U of Mississippi, 1957 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Ray Lloyd BurfordStudent As the word got out how Wobble AlforkHad said that the Beatnik Girl was hot,Which he said on the football team’s bus,It caused a controversy because WobbleWas the main Ole Miss…
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“Fragment for John Ashbery” [by Jim Cummins]
I wake, and a fragment, a wisp,entices, then disappears into the forestof an earlier time, and I am leftin a clearing where the sun is stale,or the moon is not a pretty wafer,and the…
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Summer studio shots with Mary Ann Strandell… [by Katie Peyton Hofstadter]
This month, I am locked in the shimmery construction sites of Mary Ann Strandell. I snapped these process shots in her studio, and then we planted a geranium border in her garden. Her husband…
