By sigurd glad

The Great Poem Series: David Trinidad´s ¨Black Telephone¨

The author of this great poem is David Trinidad. Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953. He has published books like “Plasticville” (2000), “Phoebe” 2002, “An essay in verse”, 2003, “The late show”, 2007. ”Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems”, 2011, “Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera” 2013 and “Notes on a Past…

“Not Codes to be Broken”: Five Questions for A.E Stallings

A.E Stallings is an american poet who has studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has after that lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. Stallings has published three books of poetry, the award winning ¨Archaic Smile¨ (1999), ¨Hapax¨ (2000) and ¨Olives¨ (2012). I got into this poem when I was reading through the BAP (Best American…

Completely Subjective: Anne Carson’s “Wildly Constant”

Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1950. She lived in Montreal for several years and now teaches ancient Greek for a living. Carson has written books like “Glass”, “Irony”, “God”, “Men in the off hours (Knopf, 2010), and “The Beauty of the Husband” .  She has a  great career of teaching at McGill…