November 11, 2016
“We need to know how to go about reaching the next days of our lives”
Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” is going around again. W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” is circling through social media, as it did after September 11. Why do we turn to poems […]
March 4, 2013
Why We Chose It
“Personal Effects,” by Solmaz Sharif, appears in the Spring 2013 issue of the Kenyon Review. Each time the question invariably makes sense. I’m at a workshop or taking part in […]