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Pacific Northwest Poets: Plentiful & Powerful [by Heidi Seaborn]
Next week, writers from all over will trek to Portland for the Associated Writers & Writer’s Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Book Fair. Those of us in the Northwest are delighted to invite the…
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Next Line, Please: Red Eyes and Blue Moons [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's post shows off poems that made clever use of phrases with multiple meanings, phrases such as "red eye" or "blue moon" or "working stiff" or "grass widow." As always, there were droves…
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Brendan Behan Remembered [Terence Winch]
There’s a picture of Brendan Behan standing outside the Dublin Zoo with a bemused look on his face and a large snake curled around his neck. The photo reveals much about Brendan, who died…
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Frank Yerby, Protest, and the Picturesque [by Hollis Robbins]
Every few years a scholar rediscovers Frank Yerby (1916-1991), the black bestselling author whose most famous novels, including The Foxes of Harrow (1946), The Golden Hawk (1948), The Saracen Blade (1952), and Judas, My…
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The Poetry of Bonnie & Clyde [by Heidi Seaborn]
On May 4th, the poems of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow will be auctioned off by Heritage Auctions in Dallas. The notorious gangster couple wrote poems during their two-year crime spree from 1932-1934 that included robbing…
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Jérôme Cassou’s Une Joie Secrète: Paris harlequin, Paris people [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: ©unedanseparjour/unejoiesecrète:courtesyagenceelektonlibre She claimed she was quitting but Nadia Vadori-Gauthier continues her one-minute dances – at this writing, she’s done a bit more than 1500, a full day plus an hour – since she…
