Top 5 and Why: Best Bob Dylan Songs
If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important… I don’t have to know what a song means. All Top 5 and Whys are tough, but…
Charles Wright: The Poet Laureate without a Program
“History handles our past like spoiled fruit.” If you haven’t discovered Charles Wright until now, he’s a great choice for U.S. poet laureate, and as an…
The Next Big Thing
Apparently, the idea of this whole Next Big Thing thing is to interview yourself about your current or next book, mention the person who tagged you,…
Resonance and Richard Jackson’s Associative Vigor
Richard Jackson’s latest collection of poems, Resonance, was quietly released from The Ashland Poetry Press in 2010. Why “quietly”? It’s not that poetry collections, as a…
The Stars and a Full-Moon in Midtown: Tom Lux’s and Poetry@Tech
As Billy Collins says in the video below at a reading at Poetry@Tech, “It used to be kind of oxymoronic the idea of poetry at Tech.…
Stumbling upon The Song of Lunch
How often do you flip on the TV and immediately start watching a film based on a poem? Let’s take it a step further: How often…
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