Waving the white flag

‘It’s over,’ I say. ‘You’re always saying that, too,’ the book says. ‘Always ‘tired’, or ‘busy’, or ‘giving up’. People … More

A few days to read

and James, it’s taken me a few days to read A Few Days, but I have loved every line, especially … More

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

Dear James (may I call you James?) Though it’s been a while (at least ten years, maybe more) it feels as … More

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More

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

Last week I gave up writing. For about a day. I had been given a book by one of my … More

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

‘To tell you the truth, it’s been shattering. But kind of amazing, as well.’ ‘You never said. You never said. … More

The afternoon was drawing to a close when I knew I had hit the wall. On its own terms there … More

After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard East of me, west of me, full summer. … More

Let’s love today, the what we have now, this day, not today or tomorrow or yesterday, but this passing moment, … More

What I want is to – to be present. That’s what I’ve learned. I want to strive for presence, now, … More

Now that we might finally be getting one, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices were about … More

Locus Scolus: The New York School of Poets is a thing of wonder and beauty. Named after a 1914 French novel by Raymond … More

June 30, 1974for Jane and Joe HazanLet me tell youthat this weekend Sundaymorning in the countryfills my soulwith tranquil joy:the … More

James Schuyler is back from the dead with the lovely “Other Flowers” a posthumous book of his unpublished, uncollected poems. … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More