“Stars fell on Alabama” –Old song As promised, here’s the Final Part 5 report on the Alabama ‘What Is Poetry?‘ conference which took place 25 years ago in October… more →
Scarrietwrote 1 month ago: “Stars fell on Alabama” –Old song As promised, here’s the Final Part 5 rep … more →
wrote 2 months ago: BAMA PANEL IV: SURVIVAL OF THE DIMMEST? The Alabama Panel 25 years ago this month was essentially a … more →
wrote 2 months ago: BAMA PANEL III: Indeed, Denise Levertov is increasingly appalled… The third in a series of 5 … more →
wrote 2 months ago: BAMA PANEL II: Foetry covered up in leaves, Vendler style. The second in a series of 5 articles on … more →
wrote 2 months ago: BAMA PANEL I: Charles Bernstein does NOT name the ‘Official Poetry Policemen.’ The firs … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Lillian Harvey This is lovesick for you–Charles Koechlin covering his paper with tears, he shu … more →
wrote 4 months ago: The title of this posting, “American Smooth,” is a clue and a description. Back in 1998, … more →
wrote 5 months ago: It’s more than a peek really; here’s a generous sample–including new poems by Gera … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Ira Sadoff on Dickinson—the powers of complex metaphors connected by association, the wilderne … more →
wrote 7 months ago: AED’s status on gmail just read as follows: [AED] is putting together a summer reading list. … more →
wrote 7 months ago: I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person w … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Today is the first birthdayof the Eleventh Stack blog! To celebrate we’re offering a team smo … more →
wrote 11 months ago: What’s a laureate? The word comes from the Middle English, by way of Latin, and it all derives … more →
wrote 11 months ago: When I think of Pittsburgh, I think of 2 things: The Steelers, and Gerald Stern. The Steelers won a … more →
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wrote 1 year ago: The New Yorker has been publishing a lot of the late greats lately and Gerald Stern is certainly amo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: My counterpart was born in 1925 in a city in Poland—I don’t like to see him born in a li … more →
wrote 1 year ago: When I was teaching at Old Dominion University, I had the good fortune to meet many different poets … more →
wrote 2 years ago: My W. W. Norton sales rep canceled our meeting this morning due to the plague, but I’ve looked … more →