Jake Adam York
Craft Note: Duet—Part Two (Ending With A Post By Tarfia Faizullah Ending With A Line By Vallejo)
The poem that begins with a borrowed line begins spending its inheritance right away. It feels free, cavalier, perhaps even prodigal at times. It seems to thrive on its own liquidity, its sometimes casual, even forgetful relationship to what started…
Craft Note: Duet — Part One (Beginning With A Line by Mark Irwin)
What / you’re looking through is the act of giving, writes Mark Irwin in his “Poem Beginning with a Line by Milosz.” I wrote about this poem, briefly, several months back, thinking about Irwin’s gradual transformation of Milosz’s line—“The most…
Namesakes: On Titles
A few weeks back, I was in Boston for a reading when a friend showed me the Amazon page for Jane Springer’s forthcoming book, Murder Ballad. My friend asked “Doesn’t she know about your book?” My friend was a little…
Craft Note: The Elegy (part one)
[Blogger’s note: This post is part of a series of craft notes that look forward to the work Tarfia Faizullah and I will be doing at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop this summer.] I think I began to understand genre…
Daylight Savings & The Movable Dawn: A Postscript on the Aubade
About as soon as I posted my dialogue with her on the aubade, Tarfia sent me a link to Kenyon Review Writers Workshop faculty member Carl Phillips’ own “Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm,” which I’m adding to our reading list,…
