Getting to Know Mr. Knott
Giorgio de Chirico So I bought Nights of Naomi and found this poem: THE FRAGILITY OF MARQUEES Ten Tibetan lesbians join hands to form the beautiful skingraft called sleep With bare hands of flood they caress the yellow machinery floating out of my ears Because just as the holding hands is burned up in the…
Verse broadens the mind, scientists find
Verse broadens the mind, scientists find RICHARD GRAY (rgray@scotlandonsunday.com) IF LITERATURE is food for the mind, then a poem is a banquet, according to research by Scottish scientists which shows poetry is better for the brain than prose. Psychologists at Dundee and St Andrews universities claim the work of poets such as Lord Byron exercise the mind…
Two this Saturday, October 3rd
The New York Public Library: Grand Central Branch — 135 East 46th Street NY, NY October 3rd @ 2 PM– Shanna Compton, Nada Gordon and Amy King Shanna Compton is the author of For Girls (& Others) (Bloof Books, 2008), Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), GAMERS (Soft Skull, 2004), and several chapbooks. Her poems and essays have…
I’m in French …
Jessica Lea Mayfield – A Voice and a Half @ 19 “With Blasphemy So Heartfelt” ITEMS: 1. Thanks to Alexander Dickow, my poem, “I’m the Man Who Loves You,” is available to all frogs and french fry lovers at Poezibao: Le Journal Permanent de la Poésie. Please stop in and say enchanté, or something pleasant!…
AMY KING 