Harriet Monroe published the Imagiste’s do’s and don’ts in 1913: direct treatment of the thing, no superfluities,...
Ben Sears
Ben Sears is a writer and restaurant guy in Birmingham, Alabama. He lives quite happily across from a creek with his wife, two sons, and an obligatory dog. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog, Might Stain Your Shirt.
The Poetry Foundation, and so Poetry Magazine by extension or implication depending, has a beef with Judith...
I recognize Longfellow's worth. He’s just not my cup of tea - I suppose today I should...
Bishop only published one hundred and one poems in her lifetime, and some of those came after...
The “little song” can be corrupted only so much.” So, a bit of liberty here or there,...
As best I can tell, this is the entirety of an unfinished poem written between 1869 and...
I can’t imagine anything more irrational than, when assured of eternal damnation, acting to immanentize that fate.
It’s a great word so I wouldn’t blame her, but more time was spent on transcendental chapters...
He thinks Browning has a point to make but is too hard to understand, is a possibility....
Philip Larkin is brilliantly acerbic. He cuts cruelly because he cuts directly when mockingly describing habits and...
Chesterton got roped into a production of Old King Cole and it roused his muse.
Matthew Arnold’s literary personage stands in contrast to his father’s upright example. And then it doesn’t. And...
What’s an otherwise famous dead English poet named Jonson to do when the Doctor hogs the name...
I think Kingsley Amis is also showing us something sh**** and then showing us something he thinks...
What I was reading before the encounter is on the back burner for a bit, but that’s...
When you read about Langston Hughes, you see adjectives like “melodic” and “rhythmic” tossed around. “Vibrant.” They’re...
Christopher Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s "The Amores" is fantastic. I think you have to say that, or...
This is a recipe for Springtime. It’s lamb shank in a white wine vegetable braise; rustic osso...
It was during Paul Laurence Dunbar's time as an elevator operator that he put together "Oak and...
This post is about making meatballs, and how grandmothers are duplicitous, self-interested, conniving, and not to be...
