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Doug Lang reading “Pandaemonium Sonnet” (Terence Winch)
Last Thursday (8 Nov 2018), while visiting my friend Doug Lang, the great Welsh/American poet, at his studio apartment in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, the subject of movies about poets came up. We discussed…
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“Retronym time” from “Time Pieces” [by Rachel Wetzsteon]
Retronym time Cheering: it was done.But soon the Great War would berenamed World War One. — from "Time Pieces" by Rachel Wetzsteon "Time Pieces" first appeared in The New Criterion and was selected by Kevin Young…
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Ron Padgett on Apollinaire (an excerpt)
Here is an excerpt from Ron Padgett's essay, "A Few Things about Apollinaire and Me." The occasion for this essay was the publication, by New York Review Books, of Ron's long-awaited translation of Guillaume…
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Roy Hargrove Dead at Forty-Nine [by David Lehman]
The most talented trumpeterof his generation,who playedfor us in Albany,used to hang outat Smalls, thatlow-ceilinged cellarnear us wherehe proved he could sing,a bonus,because we came for his trumpet“Whisper Not,”and when Cyrille Aimée sings “Love for Sale”and…
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Next Line, Please: Like People in Novels [by Virginia Valenzuela]
“We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. “The Gauge of Dissonance,” by Aaron Fagan uses the line as an epigraph. The title gets us started on a…
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A Visit to Winchester [by Tami Haaland]
I was in Winchester, England, this week to offer a poetry workshop at Winchester College, a boarding school founded in 1382. The students, teachers, and I met in a room of the college library.…
