In Myanmar they took over not by blood, getting rid of stained hands and feet took over by imprisoning prison and gun shots where in the past manacles and fists threatened to kill in the first instance where opposing this meant cold doors and corridors where simply saying no was heresy but triumph comes in […]
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from “Driving by the Lake with John Ashbery” by Douglas Crase left: Larry Rivers’s portrait of John Ashbery and “Pyrography”(circa 1976) Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery John never insisted on being the sole poet you were allowed to admire. Not long after he sent Three Poems he embarked on a mission clearly designed to…
Bob Gottlieb, a New Yorker who edited The New Yorker, died the other day, just a fortnight after he had turned 92. He made his name as a book editor, first at Simon & Schuster, then at Knopf, where he was editor-in-chief. He was also an author, a dance and book critic, a father, a…
Ed. note: Wayne Terwilliger, our Paris correspondent, passed along Jacques Martin’s translation of a sonnet by Arthur Rainbow, the pseudonym of a Franco-American poet keeping a low profile on the Ile St Louis. Rimbaud, According to Rambo Stop those drugs from reaching American soil. Clean up San Francisco and let Tony Bennett sing. Let freedom…
“I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish, but I thought with pains I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed. On taking thought it seemed to me that I must aim at lucidity, simplicity and euphony.” “There is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man…
At our center a root, a life supply, We have our fantastic root system Keeps us supplied, loving, and moving. The post Jugular | Camille Clark appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
No, they are not wastes of space and this not a place of waste, this collection of classrooms and lectures School, academy, is a place of hope where the learner can reach beyond where they are, where their space is full of purpose. More at http://spinrockreader.blogspot.com. The post Place of Hope | JD DeHart appeared…
