Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of four books of poems, most recently People on Sunday. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison ...
to say the kinds of things no one wants to hear. Now I just write them in poems which take a day to come up with and then I take the next six days off. That’s not how the numbers are supposed to work, ...
The closer we get, the less distance needed, the more pain that arises Love, anxiety, tears, fear, happiness, radiance, and worries all transform the reflection of a person into an unrecognizable ...
Craig Morgan Teicher's latest collection of poetry is called To Keep Love Blurry. Fifty years ago today, Sylvia Plath ended her life as a major poet and an artist of the highest order. But one could ...
Library of America, 191 pages, $20. Louis Zukofsky, born into a pious, Yiddish-speaking household on New York City’s Lower East Side in 1904, seems to have jumped fully formed into American poetry. In ...
It was a slim yellow pamphlet brought out by the the Egoist, a small publisher of which Ezra Pound was the leading force, and consisted of 12 poems, beginning with “Prufrock” and ending with “La ...
On the Town: Poets, painters, primary school children and their parents all came to view an exhibition of original artwork from… On the Town: Poets, painters, primary school children and their parents ...