Nico Walker is an Iraq veteran, heroin addict, bank robber, and author of the semi-autobiographical novel Cherry, published last month. Ilana Kaplan writes about why he decided to write the novel and ...
Yesterday, Poetry issued a statement from a poet who published a poem in the November issue of the magazine. The poet, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, was accused of being a fascist by the critic Dave ...
A creative project can begin anywhere, but poetry has long been a steady spark. It works by suggestion and metaphor. It asks questions. Its meaning is often elusive, waiting for life to give us the ...
The hesitant, self-doubting narrator of T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” famously wonders, “Do I dare to eat a peach?” No comparable skittishness hampered the genesis of ...
In his famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot proved prophetic, predicting the new kind of man and the new kind of courtship that would dominate the modern world. If people want ...
Audiences will be familiar with the discovery, usually in teen years, of a book/play/song/poem to which they can relate completely. Recently Manchester hosted a festival in which local writers made ...
When I was in middle school, my eighth grade English teacher Mr. Ortman read a poem aloud to the class called The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. At the time, I was just discovering ...