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Simon Fujiwara’s “Revolution” installation and the ironies of image at Lafayette Anticipations [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: Courtesy Lafayette Anticipations As in any virtual amusement park, Mr & Ms Public must take a ticket and patiently wait their turn to ride Simon Fujiwara’s empathy machine, now at Lafayette Anticipations in…
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Poet as Travel Guide [by Tami Haaland]
For the next few weeks, I’m living in a small apartment in Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart, Germany, and on the weekends, I’ll be teaching a brief seminar on Montana literature at Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg or…
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Next Line, Please: An Epigraph in Search of a Poem [by Virginia Valenzuela]
What prompts a poem into existence? Dr. Lehman suspects that many poems are byproducts of reading, coming across an arresting line, an interesting image, a noteworthy character, and we think of it as a…
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Tami Haaland, Guest Author Beginning October 31
We'd like to welcome back Tami Haaland as our guest author. Tami will be posting weekly during her stint teaching at a small school near Stuttgardt, Germany. Tami is the author of three poetry collections, What…
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Interview with Tony Towle [by Jess Matuozzi]
[Guest Author Note: Thank you to Jess and Tony for this fascinating interview and to Hanging Loose Press for permission to reproduce the poems discussed in it!] JM: Your poetry taps out a wry…
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John Ashbery’s Visit with High School Students [by Andrew McCarron]
[Guest Author Note: Scholar and poet Andrew McCarron has kindly shared with us this transcript of a delightful Q&A session between the late great John Ashbery [pictured left] and Andrew's high school students at…