Apr 4, 2017 | Cross-Cut (Poet Profiles), Updates!
Essay on Walt Whitman by Kyle Flak Walt Whitman played “The Star Spangled Banner” on an Olympic white Fender Stratocaster electric guitar in Woodstock, New York on Monday morning, August 18th, 1969 and changed the world forever. Walt Whitman was known as...
Dec 13, 2016 | Cross-Cut (Poet Profiles), Updates!
By Moira McMahon Leeper Hunter Lee Hughes is a big name for a blonde wisp of a boy growing up in Texas and Michigan, alternatively being passed from parent to parent via silver 747s traversing the great American sky. Those hours of travel afforded a lot of time to...
Jun 24, 2016 | Cross-Cut (Poet Profiles), Updates!
By: Collin Kelley I discovered the poet Sara Teasdale on August 4, 2026 after the nuclear war had devastated Earth and most of its people had fled to Mars. That’s not true of course. It was actually the summer of 1979. I was 10 and enthralled by the science...
Apr 28, 2016 | Cross-Cut (Poet Profiles), Poets, Updates!
By Allyson Mackender Harold Monro (1879-1932) was born in Brussels and did not settle down for most of his life. As he moved around the European continent, through Ireland and England, Monro was characterized as a “moody young man who brooded over himself, and not...
Apr 21, 2016 | Cross-Cut (Poet Profiles), Updates!
By Dave Jarecki Working at an independent bookstore during a quarter-life crisis shortly after 9/11 was as good a part-time job as any I might want. Every employee carried around some grudge against their version of “The Man,” from the former radical/general manager,...
Apr 7, 2016 | Cross-Cut (Poet Profiles), Updates!
By J. Raymond It’s not quite eight o’clock in the morning as I write these words upon a barf bag, thirty-something thousand feet up in the sky. Heading home (West Palm Beach) from my most recent book reading and signing in Boston. I drink a can of bloody Mary mix with...
