Stuart Krimko's close reading of James Tate's "The Cowboy" explores Middle American Surrealism, the conditioned reflex of laughter in crowds, and modern isolation through a fun-house lens in which Tate's work shares space with Elizabeth Bishop's "Crusoe in England."
Photo-caption highlights from "Clearing the Sill of the World," the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. An extraordinary literary event, which brought together seven U.S. Poets Laureate, as many winners of the Pulitzer Prize, up-and-coming poetic talents, and a truly remarkable audience of readers, writers, teachers, and poetry lovers of all stripe.
Photographer Curt Richter partnered with the Key West Literary Seminar for the third consecutive year to continue work on his series of portraits of American writers. This is a sampling of the work Richter created.
Purse seine boats fishing for menhaden. Photo by Robert K. Brigham, courtesy NOAA's Fisheries Collection. On our way to the sill of the world, we've been trolling. Here's what we're catching: • KWLS 28 will feature six past U.S. Poets...
We are proud to announce a new collaboration with PennSound, the digital poetry archive project at the University of Pennsylvania. PennSound, founded by Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis as part of UPenn's center for contemporary writing, maintains perhaps the finest online collection of audio recordings by 20th century poets.
James Tate, half stand-up comic, half great American poet, reads a selection from his work, including "Of Whom Am I Afraid," "A Sound Like Distant Thunder," "The Animists," "The Rally," "Silver Queen," "The Rules," and "The Special Guest." His...
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