Bob Holman, one of the few living poets of the NYC beat poetry era, former co-director of the Nuyorican Poets Café and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, has curated…
Revision, as classically understood, generally relates to the poet’s understanding while composing a poem, via kneading language, via discovering insight. More and more though I find that sort of revision…
At their best, love and translation share some contradictions, including selfishness and generosity. Translation is impossible, or at least not very good, without a passionate desire to own the material…