Double the Fun:
An Interview in Paris with Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker’s 2008 translation of Marie Etienne’s poetry, King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) knocked me out. The long lines brought [...]
Marilyn Kallet
Marilyn Kallet lives in Knoxville, TN and has served as director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee since 1986. She is the author of eight books, including three [...]
Tomato Frog
You’re so vain, You probably think this song is about you. He must have been a god, the one who cross-bred a tomato with a frog. Long ago, tomatoes had a hard time getting around. If they [...]
Bodily Harm
When Libby’s twenty-pound boa struck at the rat, I dropped my tea on her snowy carpet. Long as a squirrel, the white rat had been frozen. Libby’s husband reheated it in the microwave (where I had [...]
