Category: Poetry

Meridian Czernowitz

From the Ukarainian paper The Day, here the opening paras of an article on the Czernowitz / Chernivtsi Poetry Festival in honor of Paul Celan: Chernivtsi’s poetic meridian By Maria TOMAK, The Day “Chernivtsi,...

Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 11

Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…& that’s all folks!) THE COLD BANK Ray was in the hollow of a wave. He didn’t believe in his electric identity. And I...

The Meridian—Paul Celan

While spending much of the weekend correcting the page proofs of my translation of Paul Celan—The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials forthcoming in the eponymous collection directed by Werner Hamacher at Stanford University Press, I noticed...

September 11th Reading

On Sept. 11th, we will gather at Erika Lutzner’s Loft: 6:00pm-10:00pm Poetry Reading in Remembrance 85-101 N. 3rd St # 508 Brooklyn, NY 11211 Poets: Cynthia Cruz, Katie Ford, Joanna Fuhrman, Alan Gilbert, Pierre...

Stephen Kessler on George Hitchcock

Here is Stephen Kessler’s obit for George Hitchcock, as published yesterday in SantaCruz.com. George Hitchcock, 1914-2010 When I was an undergraduate and aspiring poet at school in upstate New York in the mid-1960s I...