A Short Essay on Looking
Poetry: Bruce Bond
Economy
Gail Aronson interviews Gladys Swan
Gladys Swan has published two novels, Carnival for the Gods, (Vintage Contemporaries Series), and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, (LSU Press, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), as well as seven collections of short fiction. Her poetry, essays, and short…
Joe Weil: “The Thing About Things: Notes on William Carlos Williams”
There are many poets who enjoy disliking William Carlos Williams. He wrote poems that seem distinguished only by their adherence to the “tossed off.” They make no major claims. They seem jotted off. So why study the man at all?…
T. Zachary Cotler: from Elegies for Humanism
The following three essays are excerpts from Cotler’s monograph Elegies for Humanism, which will be published as a book by Rare Bird Books this year. “Outlasting Artifacts” “Transitioning” “World-building”
Poetry: Susan Gevirtz
HOUSE, excerpt