C. Dale Young's Blog, page 23
December 2, 2016
Artist: Su Blackwell
Artist: Su Blackwell
December 1, 2016
"Sadness has its own beauty, of course."
“Sadness has its own beauty, of course.” - Donald Justice, from his poem “Sadness”
November 23, 2016
Four Way Books is an incredible independent Literary Press....
Four Way Books is an incredible independent Literary Press. Please consider joining me in making a donation to the help them continue to do the amazing work they do: https://www.nygivesday.org/organizations/four-way-books
November 17, 2016
October 13, 2016
Me, reading my poem “By the Way” at the University of Michigan...
Me, reading my poem “By the Way” at the University of Michigan this evening. Someone in the audience took the vid and posted it. What a world we live in now that you give a reading and hours later one of the poems in the reading is online.
October 3, 2016
I haven’t posted for a while, but here is a shot I caught on my...
I haven’t posted for a while, but here is a shot I caught on my iPhone while in Erice, Sicily, teaching for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference there. This is at the ruins of the Spanish garrsison/fort perched on the cliff side above the Mediterranean Sea.
September 26, 2016
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That..."
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly...
September 13, 2016
The Longlist for the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry
Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press) Rita Dove, Collected...
September 9, 2016
The long, steady decline of literary reading
The long, steady decline of literary reading: The NEA survey discussed.
