A Second Experience:
A Review of Two Books by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Stella Vinitchi Radulescu: Insomnia in Flowers. Plain View Press, 2008. Diving with the Whales. March Street Press, 2008. Novice poets often [...]
Something Quite Different
A Farewell for Robert Creeley The news of Robert Creeley’s death arrived via an email from Michael Rumaker, forwarding the stark note he’d received from his friend Henry Ferrini: “Bob [...]
To Bill Matthews
Ave atque vale; hail and farewell dear friend. When William Matthews died on November 12, 1997, one day after his 55th birthday, writers and friends everywhere grieved that we had lost the [...]
Ten Years After
Art or an art is not unlike a river, in that it is perturbed at times by the quality of the river-bed, but is in a way independent of that bed. The color of the water depends upon the substance [...]
The Biography of Maurycy Szymel
Maurycy (Mosze) Szymel was born in Lvov in 1903 in a Jewish environment. He graduated from the Jewish Humanistic Gymnasium and was first published in 1925 in Moments, Lvov’s Jewish [...]
The Poetry of James Still’s Days and Ways
Most readers know James Still as a prose writer, as author of the classic novel, River of Earth. People who had the chance to meet him will remember Mr. Still as a personality. He possessed an [...]
Everywhere But His Own Country
Three Essays on Charles Wright and the American South There are many interviews with Charles Wright in print, and one thing we see repeatedly in them is an expression of his desire to be [...]
