May 10, 2016
Space as Sound: King Interviews Prince
“You would admit yourself an unusual personality,” Larry King says to Prince in a December 1999 interview. “As compared to most people in, let’s say, show business, you’re unusual. Most […]
May 8, 2016
Three New Poems by Tod Marshall, Washington State Poet Laureate
Wandering, No Clouds My boyfriend says that he likes the work of Jim Dine, but I once saw Pinocchio drinking from a paper cup, and knew that he and I […]
May 5, 2016
Why I’m Still Not Convinced that Meter is Physiological
I sparked a small feud last month when I wrote in this blog that “Iambic Pentameter Has Nothing to Do with Your Heart.” My essay took issue with a “pulse […]
May 4, 2016
Know Your State Poet Laureate: Tod Marshall, Washington
Have you ever seen the Seinfeld episode involving Elaine’s encounter with The Sidler? If not, do. In brief, one of Elaine’s new co-workers reveals himself to have a habit of […]
May 3, 2016
Palimpsest, Ohio
Out in Lockbourne, there is a house anchored in my memory. It was an old white farmhouse, set back from the road. Behind it sat an unused garage, a chicken […]
May 3, 2016
Clowns and Poetry (Part Two)
A few days ago, each student in my clown class submitted a new course syllabus as part of a final portfolio. How, I had asked them, might the class be […]
May 3, 2016
“Inundation of Texts”: Poets & Writers on Social Media
I think most poets and writers would agree that social media is both a blessing and a curse. While Facebook, Twitter and other social media brings us together across distances […]
May 2, 2016
Why We Chose (to Do) It (Again): Nature’s Nature
Nature’s Nature, a special section featuring thirty-one poems and an essay pondering the natural world, appears in the May/June 2016 issue of the Kenyon Review. “Nature’s Nature” is not, of […]
April 29, 2016
Losing It: On Hair, Trauma, and Regrowth
I thought my hair was falling out. I first noticed something amiss on Halloween, when I put on an improvised headpiece as part of my costume. As I used a […]
April 29, 2016
Zach Savich & Adam Clay: In Conversation
During March 2016, Zach Savich and Adam Clay (a former and current editor at the Kenyon Review, respectively) discussed their new books, The Orchard Green and Every Color (Omnidawn, 2016) and Stranger […]
April 27, 2016
Other Inquisitions: Chasing the Northern Lights
…[T]he universe had no beginning. It existed forever as a kind of quantum potential before ‘collapsing’ into the hot dense state we call the Big Bang. Unfortunately many articles confuse […]
April 27, 2016
#reclaimosu
Thirty-one years ago this month, in April of 1985, as an undergraduate at Columbia, I spent, with hundreds of others, three weeks blockading the university’s administration building. The blockade was […]