Close Calls With Nonsense

Via David Blair, I see the magazine storySouth has a new online format, in which you can find a poem I like very much by Christopher Ankney, a fun harsh political poem by David himself (look for the beefsteak tomato), and a very memorable essay by Lee Zacharias, who has just retired after three decades at UNC-Greensboro and reflects on the difference between the Lee who started teaching there in the 1970s and the Lee who has finished teaching now. The magazine, connected to UNCG, also contains tributes to the poet Robert Watson, whom I met and liked when I was there in the 1990s doing research on Randall Jarrell.

My student Victoria Ascheim is a videographer for Harvard’s Office of the Arts: in the latter capacity, she made this long video in which I talk about Laura Kasischke, Kay Ryan, and poetry-in-general.