BETTER THAN, AND AKIN TO, THE V.P. DEBATE [Here] “Befoulers of the Verbiage” It was an unfair attack on the verbiage That Senator McCain chose to use, Because the fundamentals, As he was having to explain afterwards, He means our workforce. He means the ingenuity of the American. And of course that is strong, And…
I’ll be here: Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 7:00 p.m. September 26th @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn ** Alan Bajandas, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Kristi Maxwell, Ariana Reines, Larissa Shmailo, & Erin Virgil ** ~~~~~ Now take in a little Sam Shephard reading Cesar Vallejo ~~~~~ Much On The Cliffs: The Philosophies of…
John Ashbery & His Life Summer Movies: Ashbery, Glück, Hecht, Ryan, and Merwin Watch five short video clips newly added to Poets.org: John Ashbery discusses the impact of living abroad on his work; Louise Glück declares that being a poet is the most miraculous profession and hunts for the perfect German word; Anthony Hecht repeats…
**LISTEN TO THE SHOW Our PoemTalkers – this time Gregory Djanikian, Tom Devaney and Jessica Lowenthal – gathered to talk about a late poem by John Ashbery, “Crossroads in the Past,” from his book Your Name Here (2000). Amid the usual Ashberyean ontological bounty here’s a poem that disentangles the crossed lines of narrative middles…
AMY KING 