Has literature been redefined? Maybe. Or perhaps it would be better to say the Swedish Academy has attempted to refine or realign it. Remember those standardized tests with the funny looking analogy questions? All those colons lined up and just…
My Poem on Fickle Muses “Sisyphus Ponders Escape” My poem, “Sisyphus Ponders Escape,” went up on Fickle Muses’ site today. Fickle Muses is ending publication soon, and I am honored to have work published there before the site’s long run comes…
New Publication: Issue 8 of Sediments Literary-Arts Journal went up today, 9/11 — take a look!https://sedimentslit.com/ On this 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the first poem of the current issue, “in America we like our heroes dead” by Matthew Bendert,…
What Comes After Elegy? The appearance of The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems, by Larry Levis, Graywolf Press, 2016, surprised those who expected that Elegy, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997, also published posthumously, was probably the last collection of Larry Levis’ work.…
Then Come Back, The Lost Neruda Poems —Translation by Forrest Gander I love reading translations into English–the imagery and metaphors of another mindset, worldview, often come across so fresh and startling when they come from another language. But translations bring…
