Aug 06 ‘When She Named Fire’ Examines Contemporary Women’s Poetry When the editors at Autumn House Press in Pittsburgh started looking around at various anthologies of contemporary poetry, they noticed most of the general collections still featured more male bards than female. Continue reading
Aug 05 The Art of Blogging About Art Most mainstream news organizations now blog in some form, including, obviously, the NewsHour here on Art Beat. We talked to some other arts and culture bloggers about the ways the medium has affected their messages. Continue reading
Aug 03 Weekly Poem: ‘Living Room’ By Andrea Hollander Budy In the cave of memory my father crawls now, his small carbide light fixed to his forehead, his kneepads so worn from the journey they’re barely useful, but he adjusts them… Continue reading
Jul 28 Weekly Poem: ‘How Simile Works’ Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987. Continue reading
Jul 21 Weekly Poem: ‘Barking’ Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems. Continue reading
Jul 21 Poet Ricardo Pau-Llosa Reflects on Influences, Art Ricardo Pau-Llosa, a prolific Miami-based poet and critic of Latin American art, remembers the colors, tastes and memories that shaped his youth and his writing, taking him back to his native Cuba. Continue reading
Jul 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand’ "C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand" is taken from "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch Writer, poet Jim Harrison is a determined ‘outsider’ Most of Jim Harrison's 32 books have been set in the sparsely populated areas he knows well: Northern Michigan, the Sandhills of Nebraska, the Arizona-Mexico border and in the beautiful "Paradise Valley" near Livingston, Mt., where he now lives much… Continue watching
Jul 09 Writer Jim Harrison Is a Determined ‘Outsider’ Most of Jim Harrison's 32 books have been set in the sparsely populated areas he knows well: Northern Michigan, the Sandhills of Nebraska, the Arizona-Mexico border and in the beautiful "Paradise Valley" near Livingston, Mt., where he now lives much… Continue reading
Jul 09 Jim Harrison Reads ‘Calendars’ and Other Poems Poet Jim Harrison reads his poem "Calendars," which explores the passage of time. Continue reading