(Here’s a salute to Creative Writing programs from our poets and critics, past and present, culled from various interviews and essays.)
“Abolish the M.F.A.! What a ringing slogan for a new Cato: Iowa delenda est!”… continue reading...
I have attended dozens of poetry readings. Virtually all of them were identical:
• The introductions made me think I was about to witness the second coming of John Donne.… continue reading...
Reviewed: No End in Strangeness: New and Selected Poems by Bruce Taylor. Cormorant Books, 2011.
There’s a marvelous description in Book X of Paradise Lost of the astronomical and climatological changes that accompany the Fall, and of the beginnings of predation among the animals. … continue reading...
