Author Archives: Ann Kjellberg

Don Paterson’s “Rain”

Today Don Paterson’s new book “Rain,” slim and buoyant, appears with this near-perfect poem: CORRECTIVES The shudder in my son’s left hand he cures with one touch from his right, two fingertips laid feather-light to still his pen. He understands the whole man must be his own brother for no man is himself alone; though […]

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Letters by Anthony Hecht: In the Atelier

A heaping plateful of correspondence by poet Anthony Hecht is served up by Jonathan F. S. Post in the current issue of The Hopkins Review.  Thanks to the editors for allowing us to pass on three letters that offer a glimpse into the poet’s atelier.  In the first, as a mere lad of twenty-seven, Hecht […]

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A Groaning Board This Thursday

This Thursday, Little Star and the Christopher Street Coffee House join up to sponsor a groaning-board celebration of things Irish: Paul Muldoon reads poems by himself and others, Bill Turner plays Irish classics, and Susan McKeown and friends will lift their voices in song. Please join us at the Christopher Street Coffee House, 81 Bleecker […]

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Welcome to Little Star

Welcome to Little Star and thank you for joining us! In Little Star’s journey to print of these last months, few have asked me the obvious question why, in an environment where the end of print is every day lamented, one would create a new print journal. That much seems self evident. The more frequent […]

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