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Meet the Press: Headmistress Press: An Interview with Mary Meriam
N.B. The following responses by Mary Meriam are a kind of tonal cento in the spirit of Nicole Santalucia’s newest chapbook, Spoiled Meat. To read a more forthright appraisal of Santalucia’s new work, look…
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On Richard Wilbur’s Birthday: “Mind”
Mind Mind in its purest play is like some bat That beats about in caverns all alone, Contriving by a kind of senseless wit Not to conclude against a wall of stone. It has…
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A poem from The Awl by Matthew Zapruder [posted by Mark Bibbins]
I love the way this poem captures the sad, sweet, isolated longing of adolescence. The tension created by the interplay of short lines and sneakily unruly syntax seems to mirror the experience of tentatively…
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Poet Spotlight: Julia Story [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie (Sarabande Books), the chapbook The Trapdoor (dancing girl press), and the chapbook Julie the Astonishing (forthcoming in March 2019 from Sixth Finch Books). She is a…
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Dmitri Shostakovich — Waltz no. 2 [with quotes from the composer]
"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something." "If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth." "What can be…
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Poet Spotlight: Terese Svoboda [by Kristina Marie Darling]
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is most recently the author of Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship, her seventh book of poetry, and Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet. She has…
