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Salon.com
December 10, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Sex, lies and revolution Gioconda Belli talks about leaving her marriage for Nicaragua's Sandinistas and a tumultuous life of love affairs, espionage and power struggles.  |
Salon.com
December 2, 2002
Jim Fisher |
Prometheus' gift of fission A sonnet commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first laboratory-induced nuclear chain reaction. |
TIME Asia
October 7, 2002
Ptolemy Tompkins |
Rumi Rules! Since 9/11 last year, America's best selling poet has been a devout Muslim mystic -- what gives? |
Salon.com
April 2, 2002
Elizabeth Gold |
Who moved my iambic pentameter? Forget National Poetry Month -- poets would be much better off it they learned to repackage their volumes of verse as self-help manuals... |
Salon.com
October 12, 2001
Amy Standen |
Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA Translator Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans... |
culturevulture.net
October 6, 2001
Bob Wake |
Dogs Dream of Running - John Lehman Review of "Dogs Dream of Running," John Lehman's new book of verse. John Lehman has a wizard's eye for the telling human detail and the rude pinprick, as well as the intricate ironies of the heart. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2001
Laura Miller |
The siren She bedded countless men (and women) and became the most celebrated woman of her day. She wasn't a rock star -- she was poet Edna St. Vincent Millay... |
Salon.com
August 7, 2001
Graham Joyce |
Poetic license When a writing student accused England's poet laureate of sexual harassment, the tepid peccadilloes of a nation's literati were laid bare... |
Salon.com
August 1, 2001
Laura Miller |
"The Sappho Companion" by Margaret Reynolds Genius? Pervert? Seducer and murderer? Homely bluestocking? Nymphomaniac? Every age has its own version of the woman whose 2,600-year-old verses invented the poetry of love... |
culturevulture.net
June 28, 2001
Gary Mairs |
Pandaemonium A review of a film dramatizing the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his relationship with William Wordsworth: Buried in the mess is a modest, thoughtful film about the fragility of friendship... |
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