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from “Autumn Leaves” [by David Lehman]
Autumn was here Then she left Now she’s back From summer to winter without an interval for autumn is like going from glory to disgrace like a sinner caught in the confessional or from…
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Take a Bow, Ern Malley [by David Lehman]
The greatest literary hoax of the twentieth century was concocted by a couple of Australian soldiers at their desks in the offices of the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, land headquarters of the Australian army,…
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Meet the Press: Augury Books-An Interview with Kate Angus
Dante Di Stefano: How did Augury Books come into being? Kate Angus: I started Augury Books in 2010 with Christine Kanownik, who I’d met in The New School’s MFA program. I’d been Meghan O’Rourke’s…
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Enter to win every volume of The Best American Poetry from 1988-2018. Deadline 10/7/2018
This just in from Scribner via Instagram: Visit @ScribnerBooks on @Instagram and enter for your chance to win! https://t.co/hUCKOyyeIp pic.twitter.com/osTOdusyCP scribnerbooks🌠🌠🌠#PoetryDayGiveaway🌠🌠🌠 It's National Poetry Day in the UK, and we're joining in with a…
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Next Line, Please: A Wardrobe of Excuses [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week on Next Line, Please, quizmaster David Lehman doles out yet another prompt worthy of our full attention: Do the clothes we wear have things in common with masks? Do they in some…
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Cindy Van Acker’s “Zaoum”: a force of possibility, liberation & life [by Tracy Danison]
Circle within circles (1923) I left Cindy Van Acker’s “Zaoum” thinking of Kandinsky… and… Cindy Van Acker is thought one of the moving spirits in the transmuting of abstractions into dance performance gold and…