Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Hart Crane Hears the River

Posted on February 14, 2012 by admin

For years, I’ve been mesmerized by Hart Crane’s poetry as dazzling verbal displays that suggest stories lurking within their densities but always favor ecstatic language over explaining what’s going on. To read his poems aloud is to hear jazz pouring … Continue reading →

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January Poetry Blitz: Enid Dame

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

Brighton Beach This is the end of Brooklyn, defiant and salty. Houses are cracking, and pavement, and people’s faces. Old man play chess on park benches. Gulls stalk the boardwalk. In the backsteets, roses hang scattering petals and perfume impartially … Continue reading →

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From Slabsides to Gowanus

Posted on June 22, 2011 by admin

The old adage holds true: to meet interesting people, go to interesting places. On the front porch of Slabsides, John Burroughs’s rustic writing cottage that still sports bark on its logs, I met James Walsh at an open house in … Continue reading →

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