“The Room” by Jeff Holt
Jeff Holt's first book The Harvest is available through White Violet Press. He works as a Licensed Professional Counselor, serves as the assistant editor for the Raintown Review, and lives in Plano,… Read More
“The Young Ones” by Elizabeth Jennings
"It is the business of poetry to restore thought to its dignity as a harmonious process, and so make it memorable, and that is what Elizabeth Jennings achieves."-- Peter Levi… Read More
“It’s Not the Heat So Much as the Humidity” by James Tate
"A poet of mad wit and stunning anecdote." --Julian Moynahan… Read More
“An Excerpt from ‘American Letter'” by Archibald MacLeish
"Americans are the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created people in the history of the world.” -- Archibald MacLeish… Read More
“The Common Life” by W.H. Auden
“Auden is the most inclusive poet of the twentieth century, its most technically skilled, and its most truthful.” - Edward Mendelson… Read More
“At The Chophouse” by David M. Katz
David M. Katz is the author of three books of poems: Stanzas on Oz, Poems 2011-2014 (Dos Madres Press), Claims of Home, Poems 1984- 2010 (Dos Madres Press), and The Warrior in… Read More
“Adam’s Curse” by William Butler Yeats
"One of the few [poets] whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." --T.S. Eliot… Read More
“the rites for Cousin Vit” by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Her formal range is most impressive, as she experiments with sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes. She is nothing short of a technical virtuoso." --Elizabeth Alexander… Read More
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy… Read More
“L’An Trentiesme de Mon Eage” by Archibald MacLeish
"[Archibald MacLeish] is one of the few American poets to have a sound of his own." -- James Dickey… Read More
“Ruby Ring” by Kyle Potvin
Kyle Potvin’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Measure, The Huffington Post, JAMA, Blue Unicorn, Alimentum, and on BBC’s World Update, among others. She was named a finalist for the… Read More
“Neptune Court” by Anton Yakovlev
Originally from Moscow, Russia, Anton Yakovlev lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey and works as a college textbook editor. He studied filmmaking and poetry at Harvard University. His work is published or forthcoming… Read More
“Addiction to an Old Mattress” by Rosemary Tonks
"Rosemary Tonks' imagery has a daring for which it's hard to find a parallel in British poetry" - John Hartley Williams… Read More
“The Murderer” by Kate Northrop
Kate Northrop is the author of Back Through Interruption, Things Are Disappearing Here (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice), and Clean. She teaches at the University of Wyoming. … Read More
“The School Custodian on the Birds and the Bees” by Kevin Cutrer
Kevin Cutrer, born and raised in southeast Louisiana, lives in Boston. His work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, Cimarron Review, The Raintown Review, Kin, Unsplendid, and elsewhere. He… Read More
“Thirteen New Ways To Spell ‘AMERIKKKA'” by Quincy R. Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr is the author of several collections, most recently Heimat and the forthcoming The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and… Read More
“The Stenographers” by P.K. Page
Patricia Kathleen Page is best known as a Canadian poet. She is the author of more than thirty published books that include poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.… Read More
In Search of Steve Ditko (2007)
A BBC Four documentary about comic artist Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spiderman and Doctor Strange. Features interviews with Stan Lee, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman. … Read More
For Mardi Gras, Some Professor Longhair!
Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair, was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. The music journalist Tony Russell, in his book… Read More
Philip Levine at the NYS Writers Institute in 1996
The former Poet Laureate of the United States (2011-2012) Philip Levine died this weekend at the age of 87. Levine was best known for his poems about the American working class and… Read More
“Meteor” by Susan Delaney Spear
Susan Spear is the managing editor of Think, a journal of formal poetry, book reviews, and criticism housed at Western Colorado State University. She has published poems in Academic Questions, The Lyric,… Read More
“Ich Bin ein Charlie Hebdo” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr is the author of several collections, most recently Heimat and the forthcoming The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and… Read More
“Picker” by Miller Williams
"Miller Williams writes about ordinary people in the extraordinary moments of their lives." - John Ciardi… Read More
“Mingus at The Showplace” by William Matthews
"A deliciously irreverent, classically minded poet . . . One of the wittiest and most heartbreaking American poets in the second half of the twentieth century." - Edward Hirsch… Read More
“As the Rooks Are” by Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, and lived most of her life in Oxford, where she moved in 1932. She was educated at Rye St Antony and Oxford High… Read More