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On James Tate’s Last Poems [by Matthew Zapruder]
James Tate's posthumous collection of prose poems, "The Government Lake," is officially published by Ecco Press on July 2, 2019. It is a terrific book. I asked Matthew Zapruder to say a few words…
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from “‘Meditations in an Emergency” [by Frank O’Hara]
One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes–I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store…
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“Soufflette” – François Chaignaud makes serious contemporary work of old-style “Camp” [by Tracy Danison]
”Soufflette”FrançoisChaignaud-CarteBlanche©HelgeHansen.jpg I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style / And so I came to see him …/ He’d found my letters and read each one out loud…/…
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“Bread and Wine” by Friedrich Hölderlin [trans. David Lehman]
"I don't believe you have any notion of the pleasure that the arrival of the fourth volume of Hölderlin's collected works provided me. I had been waiting for it so long and so eagerly…
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Squib 308: The Early Days of Television, Second Wave [by Alan Ziegler]
In the early 1970s, cable comes to Manhattan, agonizingly one neighborhood at a time. The main draw is being able to watch Knicks home games. A company called Teleprompter (they write it TelePrompTer)…
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The Questions They Should Ask the Candidates (without telling them in advance) [by David Lehman]
1a) Which do you favor, the Rolling Stones or the Beatles, and why? 1b) Which do you prefer, Picasso or Matisse? 1c) Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, or Thomas Alva Edison? 2) Do you consider…
