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Author Archives: Ann Kjellberg
This Week: April Bernard on Elizabeth Bishop
April Bernard offers this beautiful reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” in a review of new editions of Bishop’s poems, prose, and editorial correspondence. Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from […]
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Milosz celebrations all over
The centenary of the birth of Czeslaw Milosz has festivities busting out all over, with a bumper crop of marvelous participants. In New York, a tribute at the 92nd Street Y on March 21 will include Little Star‘s dynamic duo, Adam Zagajewski and his wonderful translator Clare Cavanagh (whose Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, […]
“Phi,” by Melissa Green
I could not find the Golden Bowl, the Golden Bough, a golden wedding band I never saw the golden lights corona’d in my children’s hair, for they were not. I longed to love and wept out a sea’s worth as decades ticked by, ticked by and I began to slice my heart and feed upon […]
Paul Muldoon and Wayside Shrines!
Paul Muldoon and his new band, Wayside Shrines, will be appearing at The Stone in New York City on February 16. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we offer some of Muldoon’s song lyrics with exalted reflections on love. THE ADULT THING IT WAS OBVIOUS NEWT AND RUDY WERE HAVING AN AFFAIR JFK WAS DOING […]
Rozewicz Comes to America, II
Herewith our second of two samplings of the work of Tadeusz Różewicz, the last in his mighty generation of Polish poets to be fully heard in America. These three little poems find our poet in a characteristically laconic mode. The translator is Joanna Trzeciak. Click here for our first sample, a fantasia on who might […]
Rozewicz Comes to America, I
Tadeusz Różewicz is the last of the great run of Polish poets that picked up where Polish independence left off to become fully audible in English. Norton publishes at the end of this month an ample survey of his career, Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz, translated by Joanna Trzeciak. Little Star brings you […]
Little Star goes live!
Join our bounty of Boston-area writers, including beloved contributing editor and muse Melissa Green, and visiting eminences Eugene Ostashevsky and William Wadsworth, at the Pierre Menard Gallery on Sunday, January 23, for a kick-off reading!
Three soldiers leave camp on a mission, from “To Hell With Cronjé,” by Ingrid Winterbach
(Cape Colony, South Africa, 1902) It is a clear day, with few clouds. They have not been on horseback for a long time. The cool morning air is pleasant on Reitz’s cheeks. He is grateful for a chance to get out of camp at last, even for a day or two. The plan is to […]
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Conversations at the End of the Avant Garde
In 1928, a group of artists, poets, and provocateurs in Leningrad founds “Oberiu,” a nonsensical-sounding acronym for “The Association of Real Art.” Says patron Kazimir Malevich: “You are young troublemakers and I am an old one. Let’s see what we can do.” They shock and mesmerize the city with their outlandish performances and stunts. By […]
Gary Snyder in New York
This autumn Counterpoint Press, heir of the beat- and Japanese-inflected North Point Press of Berkeley, founded by Jack Shoemaker in 1980, brings back Gary Snyder’s Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems in a lovely reissue, as well as a twentieth anniversary edition of Snyder’s summative The Practice of the Wild, with a new introduction by the […]