Marjorie Perloff writes about Sergei Bondarchuk's adaptation of WAR AND PEACE, "a wonderful reminder of the novel's passion and power" raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue

George Kalogeris has six poems in our latest issue, including "Oaks" raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue

Happy birthday to Dr. William Carlos Williams, who watched the yachts contending for the America’s Cup off Newport, RI, in 1934, at the depth of the Great Depression, and thought of Dante and Virgil floating over souls of the damned in Canto VIII of the Inferno.

Submit your poetry collections to the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize at TRP: The University Press of SHSU, judged by Richard Blanco! The winner receives $10,000 in addition to publication: buff.ly/44UIrWI

Helaine L. Smith reviews WINTHROPOS--winner of the 2023 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize--by George Kalogeris in our latest issue LSU Press LSU Press Poetry NE Poetry Club raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue

We look forward to welcoming Sylvie Baumgartel to campus tomorrow. Join us for a poetry reading and reception! Rutgers Writers House Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Humanities Rutgers History Department Rutgers English

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The new issue of Raritan is out now, featuring work by Langdon Hammer, Gabriel Josipovici, Marjorie Garber, Ishion Hutchinson, and more. raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue Rutgers English Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Humanities

Frank MacShane (who was my first translation teacher) spends a rainy afternoon in Manhattan with Borges. The piece is in a fifty-year-old New American Review paperback, whose yellowing pages are about to self-destruct:

Join us for a conversation with former Cullman Fellow @adamshatz about his new biography of the writer-activist Frantz Fanon—who inspired today’s movements for social and racial justice. Register to join online: on.nypl.org/3NU4A1G

We are delighted to feature work by the artist James E. Dupree this volume year. Our Summer issue includes a piece from his Valley of the Gods Series called "Mitch the Bitch, Clown Rumpf" (artwork photographed by Kenneth White). raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue

My thanks to Christian Gullette, barkeep of dreams, for rum-running the couplets below in The Cortland Review. Do forgive me for my choice of spirits, gin purists, and remember that even Auden was ombibulous when it came to this frosty cocktail. cortlandreview.com/issue-92/boris…

Pleased to get the proofs of my piece on early Kermode, coming out in Raritan Quarterly before too much longer.

Our pleasure!

Advances approved! Our new issue will ship soon, featuring work by @mervatim, Kirun Kapur, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, John Berryman, Rosanna Warren, and more.

The "double flowering" cherry tree beside Cindy's Market.