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Poet Spotlight: Brenna Womer [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Brenna Womer is a prose writer and poet in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and an MFA candidate at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition as well as serves as an…
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Poet Spotlight: Laurie Sheck [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Born and raised in the Bronx, poet Laurie Sheck was educated at the University of Iowa. She has published several collections of poetry, including Captivity (2007); The Willow Grove (1996), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Amaranth (1981). Her…
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Aurélien Bory’s “Ash” mixes cutting edge performance, fine esthetics [by Tracy Danison]
undefined With dancer Shantala Shivalingappa and musician Loïc Schild’s fascinating performance of choreographer and scenographer Aurélien Bory’s Ash, La Scala-Paris continues developing a trademark tone and style, mixing cutting edge contemporary performance with a…
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Poet Spotlight: Elizabeth Powell [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Elizabeth Powell is the author of The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner, selected by C.K. Williams. Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary…
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Squibs 274—288 [by Alan Ziegler]
274: The case for religion: It is viable to live by that which cannot be disproven. 275: I have a closet full of unused items labelled Patent Pending. I’ve been meaning to contact the companies to…
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On the Ides of Ted: A Tribute to Professor Tayler [by David Lehman]
A memorial tribute for the late Edward Tayler, Columbia's great Renaissance man (and my mentor), on March 15, 2019, a Friday, at 3 PM in the rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia…
