The Best American Poetry

This 'n That: News from Kevin Young, T. P. Winch, and Jim Cummins

The Best American Poetry — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:47 PST

Kevin Young, this year's Best American Poetry guest editor, will be criss-crossing the country over the next few months. If you're lucky, he's planning stop in your town. You can find his full schedule here. In addition to being an...

Calling All Tattooed Poets! Show us your ink!

The Best American Poetry — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:53:15 PST

Poet Chenelle Milford's Wedding Star Tattoo Since it's inception in 2008, we here at the Best American Poetry blog have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets for his...

Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: A Cordial Romney Comeback?

Julie Sheehan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:52:10 PST

Cordials took a hit with the advent of infused liquors. They used to be our sturdy flavor friends, rarely useful, but rising to the taste when called upon. Now they’ve been downsized, as vodka got more productive, infusing itself with...

A Heart Attack and a Novel (by Lawrence J. Epstein)

Lawrence Epstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:56:02 PST

Edmund Wilson called it a "shock of recognition," the realization of a truth that you knew but did not previously recognize. It took me twelve hours to be shocked into realizing that the small pain in my right shoulder with...

"Questions for Amy Gerstler" [by Asa Drake]

The Best American Poetry — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:14:00 PST

Questions for Amy Gerstler I want to believe when you write about like minds that it’s my like mind, not that of Boy George or Famous Author. What started you on the idea of writing to the famous, knowing that...

Wit Wrapped Round with Shiny Adult Experience: Dwight Ripley Travel Posters and Language Panels at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery by Rosanne Wasserman

The Best American Poetry — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:55:06 PST

Evolution with Mushrooms, Bud, and Pineapple(c) Dwight Ripley, 1946 Dwight Ripley has his first show in fifty years, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which he helped to found in 1949. In the little back room, where John Ashbery has...

"Rib" [by Lenea Grace]

The Best American Poetry — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:20:00 PST

So she asks him why men chase women and he does not answer, cocks one eyebrow, pulls a carving knife from the drawer. Lady, it is not your heart I want but the rib you stole. Let me take what...

Go ______________________!!!!!!!

The Best American Poetry — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:26:18 PST

Tonight at KGB Bar, NYC: David Lehman and Stephanie Brown

The Best American Poetry — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:39:38 PST

We've featured Stephanie Brown's prose and poetry here so often over the years that we've given her her own category. One of our most popular posts continues to be Sex in the Stacks, her piece about the sub genre of...

"Ode to the Other Woman's Ass" [by Denise Duhamel]

The Best American Poetry — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:19:28 PST

You have occupied my husband’s imagination when he otherwise might have been bored. You gave him pretty shapes to behold at the mall, in the supermarket, when he peered from behind his Newsweek at the airport. Oh thong-wearer, the strings...