The erudite and entertaining Substack Foul Copy gave a shoutout to my poem “Worry” (from Thousand-Year-Old Words) in the post “Warts and Beads: On Worry”. It’s a fascinating post, looping through the history and perambulations of the word with the quietly witty incisiveness of other Foul Copy posts like “Odd Numbers” and “Beware the Authorial Tic.”
In the beautiful Issue 13 of Bennington Review, titled “Family Gathering,” I have three “From the Lost Notebook” poems (#2, 10, and 20). As of this posting, “From the Lost Notebook 20” is available online, and you can order the issue at the website.
My poem “Love and the Moon” was featured on the February 8, 2024, episode of the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown, with a touching introduction by host Major Jackson. You can listen or read the transcript here.
I forgot to post this when it went up: an interview with Sandra McPherson on the publication of her 22nd poetry collection, Speech Crush.
I was so happy to review this selection of Bert Meyers’ poems and essays on his work, which is part of the Unsung Masters series of Pleiades Press. The review appears in the June issue of RHINO Reviews.
A review for Jewish Book Council of Stern’s long poetic sequence, a “continuation” of the Book of Isaiah.
I reviewed a new anthology, Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems, edited by Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins (Orison Books), for Jewish Book Council. Read it here.
Excerpts of this piece appeared in the “Cataloging the Line” edition of Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. It contains some thoughts about lineation and what I often describe as “the tension of the sentence against the line.” The examples are all from Best American Poetry 2020, edited by Paisley Rekdal, but they’re also all available online via links in the piece: Regarding the Line
This is a wonderful issue of Beloit Poetry Journal and it’s an honor to be in it! The poem appears on Verse Daily today.
I actually have two poems titled “Subway Elegy” in my current book manuscript. This is (at the moment, anyway) #2.
Really delighted to have another art piece in The Curator: “Lea Feinstein’s PAGES,” about the extraordinary text-based works Lea Feinstein has been making. It was a great joy to go to her studio one afternoon this past February to watch her make four paintings based on Ophelia’s song from Hamlet.
Nan Cohen 