Reviews and Author's Notes

• W. H. Auden
• Anthony Burgess
• Charles Causley
• Anton Chekhov
• Peter Davison
• T.S. Eliot
• William Everson
• James Fenton
• Jack Foley
• Robert Frost
• Thom Gunn
• R.S. Gwynn
• John Haines
• Donald Hall
• H.L. Hix
• Barbara Howes
• Randall Jarrell
• Donald Justice
• John Keats
• Weldon Kees
• Garrison Keillor [New]
• Ted Kooser
• Philip Levine
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Robert McDowell
• Samuel Menashe
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Frederick Morgan
• Ogden Nash [New]
• Ronald Perry
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Adrienne Rich
• Kay Ryan
• William Jay Smith
• James Tate
• Richard Wilbur
  
  
  

American Poetry

• "Can Poetry Matter?
• "Notes Toward a New Bohemia"
• "What is Italian-American Poetry?"

Literature in California

• "Literary L.A., with No Apology"[New]
• "Fallen Western Star"
• "On Being a California Poet"

Poetry and Business

• "Being Outted"
• "A Spy in the House of Commerce"

Writing & Reading

• "Lonely Impulse of Delight" [New]
• "A Californian in Vienna" [New]
• "Accentual Verse"
• "Connect the Prose and the Passion"
• "Sotto Voce: The Libretto as Literary Form"

Fine Press Printing and Manuscripts

• "Designing Literature: Creative Collaboration"
• "The Hand of the Poet: The Magical Value of Manuscripts"

Film & Music

• "Drama at the Opera House"
• "Glass Appeal: Philip Glass's Film Scores"
• "Handel's Many Messiahs"
• "Moulin Rogue: Baz Luhrman's La Bohème"
• "Warner Brothers' Fat Men"