Happy James Schuyler Day

To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy … More

UCU Strike Poems 10 – from A New Guide, by Kenneth Koch

from A New Guide 7 Look at this arch. It is part of a building more than seven hundred years old. … More

and (Dear James) it occurs to me now, just thinking out loud, that in a way Kenneth and Frank actually were … More

Recently I have featured prose writing by various writers, reshaping them in the form of found poems. Annie Dillard on … More

Being together so much and talking so much and writing poems and showing them to each other so much … More

Joan Mitchell looks to be the only artist of her generation, man or woman, who produced a big, abstract, painterly … More

Reading Thomas Lux’s magnificent new Selected Poems reminded me recently that I first heard his poems before I read them. One of … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work … More

Now that we have finally had one in the UK, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices … More