“…and no race possesses the monopoly of beauty,
of intelligence, of force, and there
is a place for all at the rendezvous
of victory.”
– Aimé Césaire, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Thinking of the Caribbean this week, for …

I first heard the hard assessment “rode hard, and put up wet” when I was 9 or 10, over one of the summers my parents sent me to camp. Besides the obvious desire for time …

Christmas break. Nog to knock back. Snow to shovel.  Books to read.
Two such books: Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme and The Sartorialist.  (By Tracy Daugherty and Scott Schuman, respectively.)  A thousand total pages …

So your poetry tip of the week is a hot one. You need to get with this program. Will Alexander, a poet from Los Angeles, has been actively publishing in small presses and little magazines …

“Whatever you have to say, leave
the roots on, let them dangle,
And the dirt,
Just to make clear where they come from.”
– Charles Olson, “These Days”

Dale Smith, a poet out of Austin, Texas, made a stir recently …

To start this one off, I’ll depart from books a bit for a moment. Holiday time is for thoughts of friends, home, and family. Trouble is, for those of us out here chasing paper, we’ve …