This week's Commonplace Book: Katsushika Hokusai
From the age of five I have had a passion for sketching the form of things, from about the age of fifty I showed a number of drawings, yet of... Read More
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Part 1: Nin Andrews Interviews Joan Cusack Handler
Joan Cusack Handler Nin AndrewsI love the title, The Confessions of Joan the Tall, which made me laugh when I first read it. I thought, Joan the tall instead of Joan of... Read More
Book Press Release: Confessions of Joan the Tall
Confessions of Joan the Tall by Joan Cusack Handler Channeling the indelible voice of her 11-and-three-quarters year-old self, poet and psychologist Joan Cusack Handler travels back to her Irish-Catholic Bronx... Read More
Concert Artists Guild and LWC present: Words and Music
Concert Artists Guild and LWC present: Words and Music with author Judith Hannan and cellist Sebastian Bäverstam Monday November 12th, 2012 THE GALLERY BAR AT LPR(le) poisson rouge158 bleecker st... Read More
Poetry from Sandy
HURRICANE SANDY The unevennessOf meadows and hills,The mountains’Gorgeous dissonance,Outcrops and swathsOf bald limestone,Coarse granite ledge,Clusters of pine,Nervous, a little stiff,Clinging for dear life– And the sunIn full, horrible,Desperate magnificenceFrom necessity,Gives... Read More
Robert Irwin: This week's Commonplace Book
It was mostly a question of just staying in the studio and simply not going out. Whether I did anything or didn’t do anything, whether I was able to work... Read More
The Birth of a Press: Halleluiah!
Part 3 in our ongoing series, The Birth of a Press, CKP publisher Joan Cusack Handler discusses the ins and outs of running a poetry press. Then as if all... Read More
Mozart, Eliot, Shelley and Davis
If I sing something out of my opera, I have to stop at once, for this stirs my emotions.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.T.S. Eliot Invention, it... Read More
Nin Andrews Interviews Michael Miller
Michael Miller NIN ANDREWSThis book [Darkening the Grass] is so full of compassion and insight. It’s a very serene read, and yet you are writing about challenging and traumatic events.  ... Read More