-
What’s So Interesting About Works and Days? [by Vincent Katz]
I am on a train on my way up to Yaddo, where I'll be for the next three weeks. Last time I was up there, it was also February. I like it in winter,…
-
THE YAWNER [by Jane Shore]
No one ever talked to her, or knew her name—the woman who came to poetry readingsMonday nights at The Blacksmith House.She took her usual seat—first row aisle,placing her raincoat on a folding chairunder her…
-
Vincent Katz, Guest Author January 28-February 1
Vincent Katz w David Smith Sculpture Princeton 2018 (c) Vivien Bittencourt This week we welcome back Vincent Katz as our guest author.Vincent Katz is a poet and translator. He is the author, most recently,…
-
Fashion and Beauty with Poetess Vinny: The Professorial Look [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Dear Poetess Vinny, I just got my first job as an adjunct professor of English at a relatively small school with not much of a dress code. Most of the other professors wear a…
-
A Speculation: On “The Shadow in the Garden” and “The Aspern Papers” [by David Lehman]
James Atlas’s The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale (Pantheon Books) is the writer’s effort to come to terms with his calling as a literary biographer. Atlas has written two noteworthy biographies, the…
