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like father, like son: a narrative in poetry and guitar 8 Jul 2013 | 10:41 pm
I first listened to this album in New England spring. Then I listened to it again, on an unseasonably hot day. Which seems appropriate, given the poetry about fishing. I printed part of a chapbook lis...
endearing ruins / liebenswerte ruinen 8 May 2013 | 01:15 am
er findet immer einen Weg …for Walter Bargen, after reading Endearing Ruins Seven layers of sponge cake (eight for those whose memory, like art, is longer than life), each baked alone, then stacked an...
salton sea 1 May 2013 | 05:37 pm
At the official book launch for George McCormick’s Salton Sea, I sit on a plastic chair in the Leslie Powell Gallery, a surprisingly neat oasis in the midst of a semi-deserted street in Lawton, Oklaho...
the river white: a confluence of brush & quill 23 Apr 2013 | 02:32 am
There is a long tradition of artists blurring the line between art forms: Whistler painted symphonies in white and gray, Debussy composed impressions of sunken cathedrals, and of course Langston Hughe...
lapse americana 11 Apr 2013 | 08:53 pm
Ben Myers follows his debut collection of poetry, Elegy for Trains (winner of the Oklahoma Book Award), with the equally engaging Lapse Americana. As in his first collection, small town Oklahoma pulse...
hazards of grace 29 Mar 2013 | 08:47 pm
Old Bourbon, Cormac McCarthy, Muscular, Falconry, Siberia, Wildness – these terms have all been associated with Gary Worth Moody’s poetry collection Hazards of Grace. Certainly the power of these asso...
every bitter thing 5 Mar 2013 | 09:00 am
There is a moment early on in Hardy Jones’ new novel Every Bitter Thing where the hero, a twelve-year old boy name Wesley, accepts a gift from another boy, Rubin, who he very much wants to befriend. T...
Uncle Ernest 2 Mar 2013 | 10:42 pm
I met Larry before I met him. The first time was at the famous Marfa Book Company in Marfa, Texas, on my way, also for the first time, to Big Bend National Park. I wanted some poetry about West Texas ...
leaving tulsa 27 Feb 2013 | 07:13 pm
Leaving Tulsa displays a new and poignant voice in American poetry. This debut collection by Jennifer Elise Foerster is published by the University of Arizona Press as part of their Sun Tracks: Americ...
September, 11, 2001 1 Feb 2013 | 04:15 am
Lawrence Ferlinghetti calls this “the best poem I’ve read re: 9/11.” And I have to agree (along with Bly’s “Call and Answer.”) However, Poniewaz’s “September 11, 2001” is in a different arena than Bly...
