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Poem for Jim Cummins [“Riverboat Gamble” by David Lehman]
"Darwin predicted you," Jim Cummins said."You're in the theory." His assailant fled. People clapped. They wanted Jim to make a speech."My subject is Cincinnati," he said. "Do I dare to eat a peach?" Into…
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Lehman & Verga at the Russian Samovar, Sunday, Jan.27 at 6 PM
Andrey Gritsman's INTERCULTURAL POETRY READINGS has found a new home: The RUSSIAN SAMOVAR RESTAURANT AND PIANO BAR256 W 52nd StNew York, NY 10019 between Broadway and 8th Avenue and on Sunday,…
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What Is the Great Test of any Poem? (by Nin Andrews)
Reading Michael Dirda’s review of Best American Poetry 2018, I was stopped by these sentences: The great test of any poem is simply Would I like to learn this by heart? Alas, nothing here quite merits…
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Interview with Mindy Aloff, Editor of Dance in America: A Reader’s Anthology
Library of America’s latest anthology, Dance in America, brings together dancers and choreographers, impresarios and critics, and enthusiastic literary observers to present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a great art form. Edited by the veteran dance…
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Sonnets and Seeds [by Hollis Robbins}
Metaphors of seeds appear in three sonnets by African American poets during the two decades of literary optimism of the 1920s and 1930s often referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. These are not seeds…
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Cold Blood runs on the boulevard de Strasbourg [by Tracy Danison]
Cold Blood: Photo©JulienLambert03122015-JL-5187.jpg It turns out that “You don’t need language to understand it” about a performance piece is just as true as that other cliché I once doubted, “He done drank himself to…
