October 9, 2007
Making and Meaning
Recently I was asked to say a few words about the relationship between the work of the critic and that of the poet, so I began with the observation that […]
October 2, 2007
The Ax and the Frozen Sea
Mary Ruefle’s “Someone Reading a Book is a Sign of Order in the World” moves like a bee inside the honey-hive: it arches its back, it hides in the corner, […]
September 25, 2007
Under construction
Have you ever seen a house move? The future home of The Kenyon Review slid over twenty-four inches this afternoon, while five of us applauded. Tonight the crew will rearrange […]
September 9, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Classics, anyone?
This past summer at the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, all of the high school students were oohing and ahhing over favorite books list, especially Lolita, listing it as their […]
September 7, 2007
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
I nearly posted before heading off to dinner, but I’ve come back to discover that Madeleine L’Engle died in Connecticut yesterday at the age of 88. This woman deserves more […]
September 4, 2007
On the Scrolls
This post is by W. David Hall, the Director of the Kenyon Review’s Young Writers Program. Was anyone else disappointed that Viking’s On The Road: The Original Scroll was not […]
August 23, 2007
Books for babies
A couple of weeks ago, I spent five days with two dear friends and their new baby, whose fourth month begins on Friday. This small baby–we’ll call her Lily, because […]
August 13, 2007
The Romantic Real
Jonathan Crimmins brings another post of his thoughts on Divisadero.–TM Here’s an analogy– The Polyphonic Spree is to Riverdance as Miranda July is to Michael Ondaatje. The first half of […]
August 11, 2007
Summer Reading for College Students: What Do You Think?
A recent article in The New York Times notes the recent upsurge in summer reading for incoming first-year college students. The practice itself is not new, to be sure. My […]
August 7, 2007
Culture of the MFA
Heather Christle’s blog on standard-issue workshop comments has inspired me to reflect further on my own list of least-favorite comments. I should note, however, that I have probably encountered these […]
August 6, 2007
A Conversation With Stanley Plumly
Just posted on the KR site: A conversation with poet and author Stanley Plumly by KR poetry editor David Baker. “The way my poems have ‘grown’ in size and consciousness […]
July 27, 2007
Marvin Bell and the Dead among Us
Marvin’s Bell’s new book of poems, Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), is quite an excellent read, and indeed an up-to-the-minute book that reminds us, “Three thousand of ours […]