The Adriana Trigianni and David Baldacci event, Wine and Words, at the Virginia Festival of the Book last week, was held at a Charlottesville wine bar called Enoteca. It’s a knock off of the wonderful […]
Fateful Acts
On February 26, 2009, Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times of Philipp Meyer: “American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer — a writer who understands how place and personality and […]
What are you doing here in the first place?
I climbed up the creaking stairs, 10 minutes late, as Jeffrey Renard Allen read from his story “The Green Apocalypse” from his collection Holding Pattern. I was immediately reminded of how much I enjoy the […]
Virginia Festival Of The Book
This week in Charlottesville is the 15th annual Virginia Festival of The Book—five days of literary events to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy. This year 12th Street will be in attendance, so look […]
Getting Away
There is something to be said for a change of environment. For the past couple of weeks my writing has been stuck, stagnant. The answer was to get away. I am a creature of habit. […]
Julie Sheehan Recites
[wpvideo i7uniFhO] Julie Sheehan reciting “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats.
Justin Taylor Reads
[wpvideo dhVLGi7W] Justin Taylor reading “I See Tiny Mouths” by Anthony McCann from the Agriculture Reader.
Amy Berkowitz Reads Ish Klein
[wpvideo 6Ed7lrK5] Amy Berkowitz reads a poem from Ish Klein’s new book UNION!
Jono Tosch Reads
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Fisherman Poets
“They might wax about the versatility of a deck bucket or of romance in rubber boots, but they also describe a livelihood that can kill those who pursue it.” —From an article in the New […]
Banging Away At It
For 21 months I’ve been working on the same piece and it’s driving me crazy. Most every day I turn on my computer, open the same Word document, and start the process all over again. […]
Katharine Coles
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A One Hundred Poem Blog
I can’t stop checking out this blog … daily! A poem is posted each and every day, for the first 100 days, President Barack Obama is in office.On this blog you can read poems by: […]
Gary Clark
[wpvideo 4j6Zt5eD] Gary Clark reading “An Appearance in New Hampshire” from Rivendell Vol. 1 No. 2
Ish Klein Reads "The Phases"
[wpvideo UwPpsyd2] Ish Klein reads “The Phases,” from her new book UNION! to Bernadette.
Mathias Svalina Reads Julie Doxsee
[wpvideo vLJo3OqF] Mathias Svalina reading from Julie Doxsee’s book Undersleep
Kim Addonizio Reads "Ex-Boyfriends"
[wpvideo dletWcOK] Kim Addonizio reads “Ex-Boyfriends.”
Favorite Firsts
The first line of a book always stays with me. I like to devour books, somehow imagining that I can climb into the book, become a part of the story as the ink on the […]
Lit Bits
“Does being ‘great’ simply mean writing poems that are ‘great’? If so, how many? Or does ‘greatness’ mean having a sufficiently ‘great’ project? If you have such a project, can you be ‘great’ while writing […]
Bad Writer Karma
I stole a book yesterday. I know, I know, I know. It was stupid, and I really didn’t meant to do it. It just…happened. There’s a Barnes & Noble about a five-minute drive from my […]
Writers as Luddites
We’re back…from Chicago, that is, and we have lots to recap for you. Zoe went to a great poetry reading featuring Robert Polito, Paul Muldoon, Frank Bidart and others. I attended a panel I want […]