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Blog May 2012
A Garden of Inspiration
May 25, 2012
“While Socrates is pronouncing his subtle and solemn words, our eyes remain fastened on Athikte, while she read more
Tags: Andrew Seguin, Baudelaire, French Symbolists, Mallarme, Memorial Day, Monet, New York, New York Botanical Gardens, Paul Valery, poetry, Poetry Society of America, Rimbaud, summertime, Verlaine, Wallace Stevens
An Island in the City
May 14, 2012
Though it meant plenty of city driving to reach it, City Island fulfilled read more
Tags: Best American Poetry blog, boats, Bronx, City Island, Frost Lecture, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Nelson, May, Mother's Day, New York, Orchard Beach, poetry, Poetry Society of America, Sunday, Wanda Coleman
Negotiating Other Territories
May 6, 2012
PrayWay, by the artists Kraupa-Tuskany, Berlin, and The Third Line, Dubai, was part of the New Museum’s Triennial. read more
Tags: art, comment, commentary, evocation, hospitality, Koran, New Museum, New York, Perspective, PrayWay, provocation, religion, Samarkand, Tashkent, Triennial, Uzbekistan
Seeds, Capsules, and Runes
May 6, 2012
In early May, more than on the vernal equinox in this part of the world, friends send lines about Spring, read more
Tags: American Museum of Natural History, Anish Kapoor, beans, Chicago, Cloud Gate, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, runes, Santiago Calatrava, sculpture, seeds, The Bean, time, time capsules
On going
May 1, 2012
A highlight of blogging for Best American Poetry last week (see “This Be the Poet”) on the Poetry Society of America’s Larkin event at Cooper Union was the quick read more
Tags: Aaron Poochigian, Best American Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop, food, Inquisitive Eater, John Berryman, New School, New York, Philip Larkin, poetry, Poetry Society of America, shared meals, tiny apartment, Vijay Seshadri