Four Stories
This is the beginning. Here is where the story begins. The character is introduced—we meet the character, her, we’ll call her a her.
Craig Morgan Teicher
Craig Morgan Teicher
Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of several collections of poems, including The Trembling Answers, which won the 2017 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the essay collection We Begin In Gladness: How Poets Progress. He also edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz.
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Fiction
Poetry
Book Review: ‘The Mountain Lion’ by Jean Stafford
Spoiler alert: Jean Stafford, in her
all-but-out-of-print masterwork
Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography
As if in answer to a primordial urge,
I longed for something
to which to
Two Poems
It was not unlike a raccoon
when I found it by the highway.
Clearly it was special,
Daily
Remembering Richard Howard
“Richard could be contrary and complex, but fundamentally he was generous: he wanted more poetry in the world.”
Allowing Things to Happen: An Interview with Tyshawn Sorey
The composer and drummer discusses working with the poet Terrance Hayes, improvising in a pandemic, and a different kind of virtuosity.
Poetry Is Doing Great: An Interview with Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar talks to Craig Morgan Teicher about recovery, social media, and building silence into the poetry collection ‘Pilgrim Bell.’
Ella Fitzgerald at the End of the World
Waiting for the future is the opposite of listening to music.
The Later Work of Dorothea Tanning
In these late paintings paint becomes corporeal, inseparable from the limbs, torsos, and disguised faces that hover across her canvases.
On the Timeless Music of McCoy Tyner
So many of the greats are leaving the earth in this dark time when we need them most.
Poetry Is a Volley between the Living and the Dead
In francine j. harris’s verse, Craig Morgan Teicher senses the inner-city pastorals of Lucille Clifton and the burning elegies of D. A. Powell.
That Inescapable Animal
On Delmore Schwartz’s “The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me.”“the withness of the body”The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In l…