September 19, 2017
Interview with UK Poet Aaron Kent
Although not well-known in the US, Aaron Kent is a British force. I first came across his work via his Poetic Interviews project, wherein he poetically interviews writers as disparate […]
April 20, 2016
The Best Light Is Brief
Earlier this month, I volunteered for the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF), which is how I came to manage the passholder line for a weekend showing of The Adderall Diaries […]
August 27, 2014
Mid-Morning of the Planet of the Selfies
A few weeks ago I started flagging stories about selfies. I’m not sure why. I think I wanted to make the late-to-the-party claim that the selfie may be the emblem […]
July 22, 2014
Goodnight Reuben Bright
Sunday’s Times was chockablock with poetry. Daisy Fried lit fireworks for Dan Chiasson’s Bicentennial; Stephen Burt quoted liberally (and salaciously, by Gray Lady standards) from Patricia Lockwood’s Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. […]
January 1, 2014
Out with the Auld
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Of course not, says experience, and conscience, and (answering his own question) Robert Burns. So we raise our cups o’ […]