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An Interview with David Keplinger [by Nin Andrews]
Anyone reading my recent posts might notice I've been talking/thinking a lot about David Keplinger's poetry. These last few weeks, his poems have been speaking to me. I see in his prose poems the…
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A Note on the Simile [by David Lehman]
Similes are as underrated in contemporary writing as Longfellow is underrated among his nineteenth century confreres. Well, maybe all rhetorical figures are underrated. The neglect of rhetorical devices, verse forms, rhyme, and other “adjuncts…
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Who said it? [quote of the week #2, 2025 series]
"Hans was mediocre in the most honorable sense of the word." "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also the truth." "Speaking French is, for me, like speaking without saying anything —…
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“Who Said It?” [quotes of the week: no. 1, January 20, 2025]
A novel's true suspense is felt not by the reader but by the author, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. Europe is the negative that American developed into the…
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Shelley Wong: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ When We Were Young I was a month older. We both had Chinese last names. She was also Khmer, Thai & Vietnamese: a mix of enemies. Thailand always…
