by David Lehman | Nov 3, 2013
I visited him three times. The first visit we spoke about T. S. Eliot’s play The Cocktail Party and the character he reminded me of, a sort of spiritual psychiatrist: a no-nonsense male authority figure with T. S. Eliot’s world-weary deep rueful skeptical...
by David Lehman | Sep 3, 2013
Grand Central I thought of you today, Billy Collins, in the subway changing trains at the center of eight million poems turning and turning like a tourist bewildered under the clock inside the palace at the still point of an analog world in a...
by David Lehman | Jul 3, 2013
The Guggenheim Fellowship Poem Do they still write “The Guggenheim Fellowship Poem,” which takes place in Italy–in...
