On Poetry
July 20, 2010
War Comes Home: Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise 0
by Josh Cook
Contemporary war, in America at least, is now defined as much by coming home as it is by shipping out.
June 10, 2010
Machine Gun Sonnets 4
by Adam Gallari
World War One, when educated and idealistic young men wrote of mustard gas and aerial bombardment using sonnets and couplets.
April 27, 2010
Thrill Screen: Poetry and Performance 4
by Kiki Petrosino
Consider that when this video premiered on MTV, I was four years old. “Thriller” broke all kinds of new ground for the way it merged storytelling, music, and filmmaking, but all that was nothing to the absolute crater this video—and Vincent Price’s reading—left on my tiny, brand-new imagination.
April 30, 2009
National Poetry Month: Kwame Dawes 0
by Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is the author of fourteen books of poetry and many books of fiction, non-fiction and drama. His collection, Hope’s Hospice, will appear with Peepal Tree Press in May of 2009. He is Distinguished Poet in Residence at the University of South Carolina where he directs the SC Poetry Initiative and the University [...]
April 28, 2009
National Poetry Month: Rebecca Keith 0
by Rebecca Keith
Rebecca Keith holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and BOMB Magazine and was a finalist for the 2008 Laurel Review/GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series Award. Her work has appeared most recently in The Laurel Review and Storyscape Journal. She is a founder and [...]
April 27, 2009
National Poetry Month: Kazim Ali 0
by Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali’s books of poetry include The Far Mosque and The Fortieth Day. He is also the author of two novels, Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth, as well as a forthcoming book of lyric prose, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities. He teaches at Oberlin College and in the Stonecoast MFA program.
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