December 2021: Denise Duhamel: “On Emily Dickinson”
November 2021: Donald Wellman: “Heilbronn or How I Became a Poet”
October 2021: Julie Marie Wade: On “Meditation XVII” by John Donne
September 2021: Sheila Murphy: “Sound. Silence. Privacy. Confidence.”
August 2021: David B. Axelrod, with a Note by Alfred Corn: “Advice from Rilke”
July 2021: Kim Shuck: “Hopscotch and Bank Robbers”;
June 2021: Phillip Lopate, Poetic Influence, John Keats’ “When I Have Fears”;
May 2021: Gail Newman: “Alphabets of a Lost Tongue”;
March 2021:Sandy McIntosh: Writing Influences: Joseph Heller: “Why Should I Write Another Book?”
February 2021: Philip F. Clark: “Sustain Wonder”
January 2021: Denise Low: “The Womanly Lineage of Writerly Mentors”
December 2020: Dennis Barone: “These Hills, This Mountain-Laurel”
November 2020: Tony Trigilio: “Passing Through Our Brief Moment in Time: A Poetics of the Ordinary”
October 2020: Alfred Corn: “A Writer’s Beginnings”
September 2020: Poetic Influences: Eileen R. Tabios: “Angela Manalang Gloria”
August 2020:David B. Axelrod: “The Value of the Local: Red Meat for the Poets On Long Island”
July 2020: Julie Marie Wade: “Small Doors”
June 2020: David Lehman: Poetic Influences: Ben Jonson’s “My Picture Left in Scotland”
May 2020: Denise Low: “The Fourth Dimension of Writing”
April 2020: Stephanie Strickland: “Late To the Party”
March 2020: Barbara Novack: “Singing the Melody”
February 2020: Geoffrey O’Brien: “WHERE DID POETRY COME FROM: Three Early Encounters”,
January 2020: Amy Gerstler: “Ships In Bottles”
December 2019: Poetic Influences: Mary Mackey on John Keats’s “Negative Capability”
November 2019: Basil King: “The Past is as Present as I Want the Future to Be”
October 2019: David Lehman: “Opening Shot”
September 2019: Daniel Morris: “Reading Spivack/Reading Myself”
August 2019: Indigo Moor: “A Long Overdue Apology”
July 2019: Lynne Thompson: “Father Tongue”
June 2019: Kim Shuck: “Maybe the Pepperwood Tree Taught Me to Write”
May 2019: Sandy McIntosh: “Two Bookstores and Two Capote Intrusions”
April 2019: Eileen R. Tabios: “My First Book”
March 2019: Jason McCall: “Who Are You?”
February 2019: Burt Kimmelman: “My Tutelage”
January 2019: Jane Hirshfield: “A Continuously Accidental and Precarious Thing”
December 2018: Mary Mackey: “Fever and Jungles: On Becoming a Poet”
November 2018: Phillip Lopate: “The Poetry Years”
October 2018: Denise Duhamel: “Mr. Rogers and Me”