David Meltzer is a poet and a time traveler. He came here from 1937, and remembers feeling “doomed by the atom bomb” when he was a student. A power structure using fear to control the population is nothing new—in the 1950’s children in school were told to hide under their desks as a practice drill Read More
Author: natilee shock
AN INTERVIEW WITH ELAINE KAHN
City Lights published Elaine Kahn‘s debut full-length collection of poems, Women in Public, as the thirteenth title in the City Lights Spotlight series. The following exchange was conducted by email. STEVEN GRAY: How did you get into the poetry biz? ELAINE KAHN: I don’t remember a time that I didn’t write poetry, but I definitely never thought “when I grow up I Read More