Ed Meek
Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.
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In this book, Naomi Klein shines a light on the path to a politically and economically just model of sustainability.
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Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.
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In his new book, poet Charles Simic employs his customary strategies, but he seldom achieves the intensity he once did.
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In Frozen Charlotte, Susan de Sola provides readers with enough aesthetic pleasure and thoughtful commentary about today’s world to remind us of just how good — and necessary — poetry can be.
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We will find out how much the future of the earth matters in the next Presidential election.
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.
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The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
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Poetry Commentary: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100 — The Beats Go On
The Beats came before the ’60s, the decade of civil rights protests, women’s rights, the anti-war movement, and the civil strife that included riots and assassinations.
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