Poets don’t usually open for rock shows. But Shea Stadium – no, not the real one, but a DIY venue in a warehouse in Brooklyn…
Prophet of Profit: Drake as a Popularizer of Capitalism
Recently, a BuzzFeed article entitled “47 Drake Lyrics For When You Need an Instagram Caption” has been surfacing frequently on my Facebook News Feed along…
Recommended For You: Radio in the Age of Personalized Media
There are few things I miss about suburbia. However, some rituals work best in certain settings, and for me, one of those rituals was the…
Poetry: “Fall (SpaceShipTwo)”
I am nine miles above you and falling fast once iron groans and peels away from me and strapped to this rock I am…
You Hothouse First (Poem)
“Special Order Tulips are the only bulbs available for shipping during the early fall months.”—tulipworld.com Tomorrow morning 1 man’s brain puts a million…
A Talk with P.J. Sauerteig of Slow Dakota
Though PJ Sauerteig (CC ’15) just graduated a few weeks ago, he has already produced an impressive discography. Under the name Slow Dakota, Sauerteig has…
On Anthologies (Blog)
My greatest shame is that I own one song from a best-of-Willie-Nelson album. Don’t get me wrong — Willie Nelson is a lovely man, very…
Jorie Graham at Poets House: A Review (Blog)
This past Tuesday, April 16th, the poet Jorie Graham shared selected poems from her new collection From the New World at Poets House in Tribeca.…
The Sonnet is Not Dead (Blog)
Sonnet 154 The little Love-god lying once asleep, Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep…
“The Woman in Gold” at the Neue Galerie: A Review (Blog)
Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is certainly beautiful. It features a doe-eyed woman surrounded by and enclosed in gold, her hands clasped together awkwardly…