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Meet the Press: Canarium Books—A Conversation with Joshua Edwards
Dante Di Stefano: Kenneth Koch, adding to the famous adage by Wallace Stevens, said: “Not only is all poetry experimental, but all that is truly experimental is poetry.” When I think about the work…
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“Lunch Noir” [by Jim Cummins]
He painted an apartment for her once,just to get her off his hands;then he was sayonara, gone. He never heard about the drugs,the nude frolic in a public fountain,the ward. When she escaped,naked under a…
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Paul Taylor, Choreographer 1930-2018 [by Mindy Aloff]
Michael Trusnovec and Laura Halzack in Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal). Photo: Paul B. Goode Somewhere in a sealed box in a basement is a single copy of a thirty- or…
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Epigraph of the Month: “Tremor of Intent”
Anthony Burgess's Tremor of Intent (1966), his satire of espionage novels, bears a double epigraph. The first is from W. H. Auden: <<But between the day and nightThe choice is free to all, and…
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“. . .not a cemetery but a crowded, noisy maternity ward”: Dana Gioia on the state of American poetry
Here is a brief excerpt from Dana Gioia’s introduction to The Best American Poetry 2018: <<<The situation of poetry is impossible to describe but easy to summarize. No one fully understands what is happening because…
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A Footnote [by David Shapiro]
A Footnote for David Lehman a footnote is a link and a quotation is a photo and a poem can be easily deleted evenings Tell me, tell me, delete me instantly, isn't a reference…
