Is there value in assigning kids summer reading?
At The Millions, Carolyn Ross (a high school English teacher “in a town that has a mandated summer reading program”) writes about “The Problem with Summer Reading”: Then comes September.… Read more »
Composing yourself: on Miranda July’s We Think Alone
I found out about Miranda July’s current project, We Think Alone, through her newsletter. If I signed up, she wrote, “for the next twenty weeks you will get something pretty… Read more »
A grammar of laziness
In his newest post for the New York Review of Books blog, Charles Simic muses on “Summertime.” He fears the loss of laziness as skill: “To my great regret, I… Read more »
What is the state of contemporary poetry?
Harriet reports on a series of essays and reactions to the question of what some call “the state of American poetry.” The present conversation began with Mark Edmunson’s “Poetry Slam:… Read more »
Poetry should not mean but be: on sharing poems on Tumblr
On May 27, Heather Christle posted a poem on her Tumblr. The poem was Christle’s own; called “1998” and picked from the collection The Trees the Trees (Octopus Books, 2011),… Read more »