in part about love
I recommend visiting San Antonio if you have the chance; I also recommend asking someone at Trinity University what they’ve done right to get students so interested in contemporary poetry: my talk-and-reading was packed. Thanks again to the San Antonio Express-News, and to Jenny Browne, whose own Q&A with the Express-News you can read here.
I appear to have poems in the current issue of ILQ, a web-based journal with a truly intercontinental scope: the editor works in Argentina, and the contributors include John Kinsella from Australia, Elaine Feinstein and Sujata Bhatt from Britain, and Susan Stewart, David Shields, and Rita Dove from the USA.
Natalie Panno of WHRB (Harvard student radio) talks to me in a radio show about love poem for Valentine’s Day. She also talks to Woodberry Poetry Room curator Christina Davis; Christina reads aloud a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, and I read a poem by Liz Waldner.
Equivocal wrote:
“An Atlas of the Atlas Moth” and “The Soul” are real beauts, S. Really. I’d have to weigh in for those, and for Susan Stewart’s “Porter’s Pass”, tho it’s true I haven’t read much of the issue yet.
Posted on 02-Mar-09 at 10:51 am | Permalink
Walker Pfost wrote:
I appear to have poems in the current issue of ILQ
How odd that they published “To Autumn” in the February issue. Was this your idea? Or yours?
(Also, were you deliberately channeling Marianne Moore in “An Atlas of the Atlas Moth”? Also also, “The Soul” was killer. Killer.)
Posted on 05-Mar-09 at 11:23 pm | Permalink
Walker Pfost wrote:
Or theirs. Damn.
Posted on 05-Mar-09 at 11:23 pm | Permalink
admin wrote:
Thanks for the kind words. They published “To Autumn” in the first issue with space available after the poems came in, so no ironies of timing intended as far as I know, though perhaps some arise (see Louise Gluck’s poem that ends “It is spring! we are going to die!”– she also has a poem entitled “To Autumn” by the way).
The stanzas in “An Atlas” are Moore-ish, I suppose, though no more so than they are Clampitt-like… the latter learned so much from the former!
Posted on 06-Mar-09 at 4:19 am | Permalink
Allison Benis White wrote:
Jenny Browne mentioned that you opened your reading at Trinity with a poem from Self-Portrait with Crayon. Thank you! I really appreciate you sharing my work in that (“interested” and “packed”) forum.
Posted on 13-Mar-09 at 8:50 pm | Permalink