On Poetry
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 1
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 of [...]
April 28, 2009
National Poetry Month: Rebecca Keith 1
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 curator [...]
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. A line [...]
April 24, 2009
National Poetry Month: Dorothea Lasky 10
by Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE and the forthcoming Black Life. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, American Poetry Review, The Laurel Review, Fou, Columbia Poetry Review, A Public Space, and Absent, among other places. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Videos of her reading her poems can [...]
April 21, 2009
National Poetry Month: Jamey Hecht 0
by Jamey Hecht
Jamey Hecht is the author of Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film and other books. You can visit his website, and check out his blog, POETRY, POLITICS, COLLAPSE. A line of poetry by Jamey: “God is logic’s corpse, a wound in reason, grammar’s empty skin.” At AWP in NYC last year I [...]
