Although Maged Zaher was in Cairo and I was in New York, when he read via Zoom from his new book, The shadow that doesn’t […]
21 Jun
Times flies and is truly transcendent. Several months ago, in a colder time, I went over to Jersey City where Annabel Lee currently lives in […]
21 Jun
I missed Daniel W.K. Lee’s reading at the Bureau when he was in town. I emailed him and asked if he would read some poems […]
3 Jun
I read The Mother/Child Papers in one sitting. Perhaps it was so accessible because I was sitting by the Atlantic Ocean, at the same […]
1 Jun
During the pandemic, while taking care of her dying husband, quarantined from friends, and without much help from Medicaid, one day in the spring of […]
29 May
There is a retrospective of Ching Ho Cheng’s work, including some new paintings recently discovered in Vienna, at the Shepherd Gallery at 58 East 79th […]
12 May
When I began to read The End of Horses, I enjoyed the first poem immediately. It’s about riding a horse bareback, and if one has […]
8 May
The poems in The Writing of an Hour happen as the words happen. Now anyone might ask, “Isn’t that obvious?” But what I mean to […]
1 May
I have been to many Anselm Berrigan readings over the years and they are always a pleasure because Anselm is a pleasure, and his […]
1 May
With some books of poetry, you can jump in anywhere, but with Marcella Durand’s To husband is to tender, I would say, “Start at […]
1 May
Common comfortable places become uncommon and uncomfortable, common words whose meanings you thought you knew are a puzzle in pieces, and then the puzzle […]
21 Apr
Weeks before it happened, I had heard about the Black Square Editions book party that was scheduled to take place at the signs and symbols […]
