My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...
Still from Clayton Cubitt, “Hysterical Literature: Session Seven: Amanda” (2013) (courtesy of the artist) Cubitt sees the project as an extension of his earlier work, which puts portraiture into ...
When we were both young and unknown poets, Patricia Lockwood had a blog with the tagline “Poems Are Jokes.” For years, this phrase has come back to me, when I hear an especially poetic joke or read an ...