-
Farewell to George Stade, Dead at 85 [by David Lehman]
Columbia professor George Stade died of peneumonia on February 26. He was eighty-five, a mainstay of the Columbia English department for nearly forty years, blessed with good looks and athletic ability in addition to…
-
Eleven Years Ago Today: Difficulty Part 2: reading Susan Howe [by Mark Doty]
Thinking about what's difficult in poetry makes me want to talk about a book I've been reading with great pleasure, Susan Howe's SOULS OF THE LABADIE TRACT, which New Directions published in 2007.The contexts…
-
Ten Years Ago Today: Poetry, Difficulty, and a Very Annoying Word [by Mark Doty ]
I’ve just gotten home from school (I’m a guest teacher at Cornell University in Ithaca this semester) which means I’ve walked a bike-path through the woods, still ice-coated from this weekend’s storm. It’s amazing.…
-
Ashley Chen gives performance a dramatic rush [by Tracy Danison ]
Photo: ©PatrickBerger Three minutes into the performance of Ashley Chen’s dance performance piece Rush, he’s got you very pleasurably scrambling to make sense of it – wanting to rush along with him, wanting to…
-
Welcome to Ashberyland!
Welcome to Ashberyland! a digital theme park of exclamatory pedagogy where YOU get to read the poems and judge them and pick out the ones you like the most while the ghost of Ashbery…
-
Next Line, Please: The Trope of a Nation [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's prompt involved a game of "reverse scrabble," in which players found as many words as they could from the main word, "operation," and then used these words in a poem. Now one…
