Koch passed away this summer at 77 after a battle with leukemia, having recently produced some of the strongest work of his career: 2000's New Addresses (an NBA finalist). These two volumes-one of new ...
I came to “There’s Nothing Like the Sun,” and Edward Thomas’ work in general, quite late, thanks to some of my more inane prejudices. The image I’d developed of Thomas’ poems (without having read many ...
The poem Koch read was “A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island,” one of O’Hara’s most well-known and most beloved works. Koch, as he told O’Hara’s biographer Brad Gooch, had unearthed the ...
The New York Sun concludes its week of celebration of the poetry of the 90-year-old Rhina Espaillat: a celebration the Sun began back in 1950, 72 years ago.
Sun Yung Shin dedicates her revelatory fourth collection, “The Wet Hex,” to those “cast away,” using a verb to remind readers that abandonment is an action imbued with intention and responsibility. In ...
The highlight of last night's 10 O'Clock Live without question was Charlie Brooker's tongue-twisting poem about The Sun newspaper's history of witch-hunts. Everything from Katie Waissel and Jade Goody ...