Category: books
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Reading Tonight!
I’m reading, along with Kevin Barents and Chloe Garcia-Roberts, at the Blacksmith House in Cambridge tonight as part of their New Voices: Emerging Writers evening. I admit that I’m feeling intimidated by the prospect of reading in this series, at this historical house that has heard the voices of so many major & minor poets.…
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Collected Poets Series, Feb. 2010
This Thursday, February 4, at 7:00 pm, the Collected Poets Series welcomes poets Rhett Iseman Trull and Meg Kearney. For more information, please check out our (new & improved!) website: http://collectedpoets.com. Anyone who follows this blog with any sort of regularity will know why this is a reading I’m especially excited about. Rhett is the…
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The Tortoise & the Hare Redux: Lowell & Bishop
Having finished the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, I feel greatly affectionate towards them both. I can imagine how the plotline would get sexed up, but I’m stating here for the record that I think a future biopic should without question cast Robert Downey, Jr. as RL, and for EB, perhaps Meryl Streep:…
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Collected Poets Series, Jan. 2010.
Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 7:00 pm, poets Nancy Pearson and Afaa Michael Weaver will help the Collected Poets Series welcome the new year in a special benefit for the Green River House. *Please note the time change. The Green River House is a community-based rehabilitation and support program, provided through Clinical and Support Options…
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Re: Draft of the Week, #11.
I’ve read various poems by both Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, and I have a copy of Lowell’s Complete Prose that, although I haven’t finished it, I’ve read a fair amount of. (I got it for $1 in 2008, what a steal!) But somehow I never realized what true friends they were to each other…
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The Storm that Wasn’t.
Out here in the western part of the state we didn’t get so much as a stray snowflake from the so-called blizzard. We already have a foot of snow on the ground, so I’m not exactly complaining, but it was a surprise to wake up to nothing when I was expecting at least a foot…
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My Winter List.
I’m working on a rather ambitiously tall stack of books from my reading list, and picked up two novels, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees, from the library. Which I haven’t even opened yet because of the magnificent richness of poetry books I’m reading: I won a free copy…
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Stripped-down Christmas.
In a confluence of my more austere tendencies and financial necessity, we are celebrating a present-free Christmas this year. You heard me: present-free. Fortunately the boys are both young enough that we can do this without their feeling deprived — they don’t yet associate Christmas with loot. Par example: It snowed this past weekend, and…
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The Thing about Publishing.
I’m drinking coffee at my desk. The baby’s napping, Lance took Vincent for a walk. And I’ve just noticed a couple phrases Lance scrawled on the legal pad on my desk at some point in the last day or so: “Robust incoherence” and “transcendent vacuity”. I don’t know if he was criticizing something himself or…
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Massachusetts Poetry Festival.
According to their website, 178 poets and presenters are reading, leading workshops or performing at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival this coming weekend, with simultaneous launches all over the state. There’s a High School Poets Program, a huge slate of workshops, many many readings — and it’s free! If you’re attending on Saturday, come look me…
Marie Gauthier 