David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which the Times Literary Supplement of London called “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense.” Kirby’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His latest poetry collection is Get Up, Please.
Walking with Poets
Nov/Dec 2015
The Juggler of Notre-Dame
“Very few men know how to take a walk,” says Dr. Johnson. Well, I’m not one of them, your honor! Though it is hardly I who am responsible for the […]
Poetry
Winter 2005
The Desperate Hours
PARIS—M Baudin, the Minister of Public Works, yesterday narrowly escaped a revolver bullet intended for his colleague of the Foreign Office. He was proceeding to attend the Ministerial Councl at […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Borges at the Northside Rotary
If in the following pages there is some successful verse or other, may the reader forgive me the audacity of having written it before him. —Jorge Luis Borges, foreword to […]
Poetry
Spring 2000
Dear Derrida
My new grad-school roommates and I are attending our first real lecture, which has gone OK, we guess, since none of us understands it, when one of our professors rises, […]
Poetry
Autumn 1994
The Summer of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Dickie asked if we were hungry, and Art and I said yeah, sure, so he pulled into the Walt Whitman Service Plaza near Camden and there, in front of the […]