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Stalin the Poet?
In 1948 W.H. Auden wrote that “The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.” Here, Stalin’s poetry offers proof positive.
Art in Dhaka
Drik Gallery hosts the first ever Bangladesh Cartoon Fest, and The Dhaka Art Center features Samir Aich
The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
Translator Clare Sullivan recounts her experiences with indigenous women poets in Oaxaca, Mexico. “The women I met are custodians of culture and of memory. In their poetry, as in their stories, they combine nurturing and insight with fierceness and fire.”
Ben Lerner in Conversation with Cyrus Console
Console asks about “the historical Ben Lerner,” who both is and isn’t similar to his novel’s protagonist Adam Gordon.
Patchen: The Last Interview
This is the first in a series of poems, essays, stories, interviews, and other literary flotsam excerpted from small magazines and chapbooks from the last century. In 1967 Gene Detro interviewed poet Kenneth Patchen for what turned out to be the last time. That conversation appeared in a 1976 chapbook from Capra Press, and is now presented here, on Molossus.
World Poetry Portfolio #20: Ciaran O’Driscoll
Ciaran O’Driscoll is “a poet in confident possession and exercise of his craft. [His] poems do what good poems should do, widening and deepening the world for the rest of us.” This showcase of his work features eleven poems selected by Sudeep Sen.
Black in White America
Nathan French reviews the new Getty Publications facsimile reissue of Leonard Freed’s 1967 photo-essay classic Black in White America, declaring it a resonant history and relevant contemporary critique.
Of All Poets a Musician: Fiona Sampson’s Rough Music
Scottish poet Alice Willinton reviews Fiona Sampson’s new collection of thirty-two “folk dances, with precise and intricate steps.”
The New Craft, by Mathew Timmons
Molossus at the MLA Off-site Poetry Reading
Featuring Molossus editor David Shook, alongside Molossus-featured writers Aaron Kunin, Mathew Timmons, Douglas Kearney, Harold Abramowitz, and others, as well as 2010 Pulitzer winner Rae Armantrout, Lyn Hejinian, and many others!
Baloney’s Not the Answer
Teun Voeten is not the first to document the lives of the people living in the tunnel systems of New York City. His newly updated account, Tunnel People, is unique, however, because of Voeten’s commitment not only to his craft, but also to the people.