Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Poetry'
Feeding the Muse: Wallace Stevens
At home in Hartford, Wallace Stevens was a strict New England businessman, ungiven to personal excess or displays of passion. In Key West, on the other hand, Stevens permitted himself the eccentricities he normally relegated to the page. He mailed unusual tropical fruits home to his wife, Elsie, and wrote of drinking Scotch in his pajamas in the moonlight beneath the palm trees. He was fond of green coconut ice cream, mangoes, and cocktails. The latter led to drunken arguments over dinner with Robert Frost, and an ill-planned assault on Ernest Hemingway, a notoriously talented fighter who painfully contradicted Stevens's belief that poetry is a destructive force.
Billy Collins | Dear Reader
Billy Collins talks about his intimate relationship to the reader.
Entries from Key West Literary Seminar | Audio Archives tagged with 'Poetry'
Billy Collins | Dear Reader
Billy Collins talks about his intimate relationship to the reader.
Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Poetry'
A Fish-Eye View from the Sill of the World
Longtime Seminar volunteer Nick Vagnoni captured dozens of unique behind-the-scenes shots of this year's Key West Literary Seminar with his fisheye lens.
28th Seminar begins on January 7
An unprecedented assembly of American poets will gather for the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, January 7-10, 2010. "Clearing the Sill of the World: a celebration of 60 years of American poetry" will feature seven United States Poets Laureate.
Hildegard Ott Russell's <i>Spanish Limes</i>
Alongside Key West's tradition of acclaimed writers-in-residence like Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens lies the output of obscure authors whose work met the world through small press and self-publishing ventures. We found this autographed copy of Hildegard Ott Russell's 1964 <em>Spanish Limes an' I got 'em Sweet</em> at Bargain Books on Truman Avenue about two years ago. The collection of 100 poems appears to have brought together more than 30 years of Russell's previously published and new work. It includes a foreword by Florida Poet Laureate Vivian Yeiser Laramore Rader and six silhouette cuttings by Phoebe Hazelwood Morse.
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