December 5, 2018
An Accidental Memoirist: The Education of a Young Poet by David Biespiel
Sze-Lorrain: In the first chapter of your latest book of prose, The Education of a Young Poet, you write: Perhaps the hardest thing about my education as a poet is […]
February 24, 2015
The Pitfalls of Counter-Terror Literary Analysis
In an interview on an Egyptian television program in 1982, two of the greatest postmodern Arab poets, Amal Dunqol and Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudi, spoke about the purpose of their work. […]
February 9, 2015
No We Are More Decent Than That
Both David Biespiel’s recent piece, about Jihadis and postmodern poetry, and G.C. Waldrep’s reply to it are disappointing; the former far more so than the latter. Ironically Biespiel commits a […]
May 7, 2010
Poetic Political Engagement: Yes and Yes
I’m in the middle of packing madness, so I just have time for a quick discussion of “This Land Is Your Land.” This article by David Biespiel appeared on the […]