Joelle Biele is the author of White Summer and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Her new collection of poems, Broom, will be published this fall.
Nonfiction
Winter 2013
Here and There: Wislawa Szymborska and the Grand Narrative
One rainy fall evening in Kraków my neighbor Justyna, an elementary school teacher, came by our apartment. We walked into the kitchen where I made a pot of tea, and […]
Summer 2014
“Don’t You Blow Your Trumpet until You Hear from Me”: T. J. Jarrett’s Ain’t No Grave
“Don’t do it!” shouts the narrator of Delmore Schwartz’s story “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.” Watching his parents’ courtship unfold on a giant movie screen, he begins arguing against his own existence.
Fall 2013
When Time is Running Out: John Koethe’s ROTC Kills
If I could ask any poet to make me a drink, it would have to be John Koethe. Like the gods he describes in ROTC Kills, he “knows the ratio of vermouth to gin in someone’s first martini at Larre’s.”
Spring 2013
On Art and Katrina: Brad Richard’s Motion Studies
Brad Richard is a man obsessed. Obsessed with paintings, obsessed with drawings, obsessed with photography.
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Wislawa Szymborska
In her 1996 Nobel acceptance speech, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska addressed the importance of writers asking questions. Like the great scientists before them, contemporary poets “must also keep repeating ‘I […]