October 18, 2019
Reading Marjorie Welish
When Rabo Karabekian, the great abstract expressionist painter and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard, describes what he loves about his art, he does not talk about expressing grand ideas […]
October 18, 2019
Reading Marjorie Welish
When Rabo Karabekian, the great abstract expressionist painter and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard, describes what he loves about his art, he does not talk about expressing grand ideas […]
March 12, 2019
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
In Idylls of the King, Alfred, Lord Tennyson strives to bring the vitality of life to the legend of King Arthur. He seeks to convey a story so ancient it has […]
June 18, 2018
Ernesto Cardenal and the Situation in Nicaragua
Recent reports of government-sponsored violence in Nicargua have me thinking all over again about the trip I took there a year and a half ago. The occasion was an international […]
May 25, 2018
On Kim Stafford
There are a few poets one might think of as having gone into the family business—or rather, into the vocation of a familial precursor. Franz Wright, the son of James, […]
May 3, 2018
“It’s sexy, filthy, viscous, vicious. It’s religious. It’s archaic”–an interview with Montreux Rotholtz
A mélange of language by turns surreal and objective, with narrative poems intertwined with those more driven by sonics and music, Unmark is Montreux Rotholtz’s first book, and it’s a […]
April 5, 2018
An Interview With Leslie Jamison
Caroline Hagood: In The Recovering you braid literary criticism, memoir, and cultural criticism in an innovative manner. How do you see these different strands interacting with and enriching one another? […]
June 30, 2016
Most People Are Not Your Friends
In the fifth grade, I was friends with a girl on my street. Best friends—though we did not wear those Be Fri / St Ends necklaces—a heart split in two—each […]
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 […]
March 2, 2016
Ghazals for James Foley
Last week, I received my copy of Ghazals for Foley in the mail. James Foley was an American journalist and my classmate in the MFA program in fiction at UMass Amherst. Jim’s […]
February 24, 2016
You Have to Like It Better Than Being Loved
Last week, I had a run in with a family friend at the gym—a collision that frustrated me and left me reaching for a poem by Marge Piercy I first […]
January 21, 2014
Kudos Natalie Shapero and E. J. Levy
Two members of the KR community have recently snagged a pair of significant prizes and deserve some lusty huzzahs. Natalie Shapero, one of our KR Fellows, has been awarded the […]