117. REFINING FORM
William Logan reviews Thom Gunn’s Selected Poems. By William Logan Poetry Media Service Selected Poems, by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $14.00. In the 1940s and...
View Article157. UNPAVED TERRAIN
Poet Lucia Perillo talks about her poetry, her disability, and her changing relationship with nature. By Maria McLeod Poetry Media Service Maria McLeod: Lucia, your background and early training...
View Article33. METAPHYSICAL COMFORTS
Jennifer Moxley’s new book of poems, Clampdown, confronts the domestic with a disclosing eye. By Ange Mlinko Poetry Media Service Clampdown, by Jennifer Moxley. Flood Editions, $14.95. In 1996, when...
View Article115. AN ALBINO HERRING
Does Billy Collins’s latest poetry collection leave readers laughing or frowning? By William Logan Poetry Media Service Ballistics by Billy Collins. Random House, $24.00 Billy Collins is funny,...
View Article149. PARA RUMBIAR
Robert Creeley in the outfield. By Fernando Perez Poetry Media Service I write from Caracas, the murder capital of the world, where I’ve been employed by the Leones to score runs and prevent balls from...
View Article14. POETRY, DAILY
Brenda Starr makes way for Rumi, Neruda, and Merwin. By Mary Schmich Poetry Media Service I write a news column at the Chicago Tribune, and at the beginning of baseball season this year one of my...
View Article40. TO LET YOU PASS
Remembering Craig Arnold. By Christian Wiman Poetry Media Service It is now seven months since Craig Arnold died—or vanished, as most notices have termed it. We have delayed running an obituary for him...
View Article83. THE LINEBACKER AND THE DERVISH
Lowell’s and Bishop’s collected letters. By Michael Hofmann Poetry Media Service Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Edited by Thomas Travisano with...
View Article55. IN SEARCH OF THE AUDEN MARTINI
How to make a cocktail beautiful, humanizing, and good. By Rosie Schaap Poetry Media Service So strong is W.H. Auden’s association with the martini that his home city of York, England, marked the 2007...
View Article105. AS IF NATURE TALKED BACK TO ME
A Notebook. By Ange Mlinko Poetry Media Service “In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.” The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a great favorite at the moment; my two-year-old son, Gray, seems...
View Article181. ALL AROUND THE WORLD THE SAME SONG
How globe-trotting poetries may not beat scrawls in a cave. By C.K. Williams Poetry Media Service All over the world, if not every day then in every age, beautiful paintings and poems and pieces of...
View Article24. RAYMOND DANOWSKI HAS YOUR CHAPBOOK
Amassing the world’s largest collection of 20th-century poetry was easy. Finding a home for it was a different story. By Jenny Jarvie Poetry Media Service The more librarians catalog and curate Raymond...
View Article69. MISS BISHOP SAYS SO
Remembering Elizabeth Bishop. By Katha Pollitt Poetry Media Service I met Elizabeth Bishop in 1972, when I audited her poetry class (not “workshop”—she would have hated that term) during my senior year...
View Article86. NICHOLSON BAKER TALKS POETRY
Can a novel capture contemporary poetry’s (dour, curmudgeonly) zeitgeist? Nicholson Baker interviewed by Jesse Nathan Poetry Media Service Paul Chowder—the protagonist of Baker’s latest novel, The...
View Article125. The Chisel
How poetry can break open pop criticism. By Douglas Wolk Poetry Media Service Criticism: I, too, dislike it. It’s what I do for a living, though—I write about pop music and comic books, mostly. I don’t...
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