Back in the early 1980s, my friend Stephen Spera began to make poetry postcards for me. And then I took over the enterprise. Now I […]
1 Sep
In Io’s Song, some of the poems are as beautiful to look at as they are to listen to and read. I have always been a […]
30 Aug
In high school, my classmate, Mary Kopala, had an older brother in college studying for a PhD in Physics, if I remember correctly, and […]
4 Aug
… … I … … I will only write about books that are on my bookshelves now; if the book is not here, then I […]
2 Aug
… On September 13, 1955, Carl Van Vechten photographed the fairly well unknown James Baldwin who had just published his first collection of essays, Notes […]
1 Aug
… Bamboo Pavilion is a beautiful jewel of a book. Chinese poets like Du Fu and Li Bai are translated by Alfred Corn with paintings […]
30 Jul
… A year ago I got in touch with Timothy Liu and asked if I could record him reading from his new book, Let It […]
29 Jul
… When I read the poems by Patricia Spears Jones in the latest issue of the Brooklyn Rail, I immediately got in touch with her […]
22 Jul
… Jason Schneiderman’s new book, Hold Me Tight, has some striking violence on its cover yet is very comfortable to hold. It’s this oxymoron about […]
4 Jul
… In the early 1970s, poets began to memorize their poems so what was coming to the listener was coming from the poet, not from […]
30 Jun
… Basil King focuses on the details that sparkle and create the most important events in an artist’s life. His new book, Disparate Beasts, is […]
28 Jun
… One of the tasks for an English teacher is to get students writing. I have found that putting students into groups to work on […]
