About
The The Poetry Blog takes its name from Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Man on the Dump,” which ends with a question and an answer: “Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the.” The The is a forum for ideas on poetry and the poetic aspects of fiction, non-fiction, music, visual art, film, and “the things / That are on the dump (azaleas and so on) / And those that will be (azaleas and so on).” Our contributors are writers, readers, artists, critics and so on. Our readers are writers, readers, artists, critics and so on. All are people on the dump, where “one sits and beats and old tin can, lard pail. / One beats and beats for that which one believes. / That’s what one wants to get near.” We hope that The The will help us all get a little closer.
Adam Fitzgerald holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. His poems have appeared in Chortle Bread, Contemporary Phallacies, Slave Grime and Igloo Dust. Rumors have it that he edits Maggy. His manuscript was recently rejected from The Alaskan Retirement Home Quarterly Press. He is presently at work on no collaborations. He lives with his wife and two children in the East Village.
Alina Gregorian holds an M.F.A. from The New School. Her poems have appeared in various publications including, Caketrain, Fou, Juked, Elimae, The Best American Poetry Blog, and Pax Americana. She is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Prize and is an editor of the poetry magazine Maggy. This is her blog: alinagregorian.blogspot.com.
Stuart Krimko recently published The Sweetness of Herbert, a collection of poems issued by Key West-based Sand Paper Press. He received a grant from the Fund for Poetry 2006. Krimko lives in Los Angeles, where he works on a novel tentatively titled I Died So Far East It Was West, along with translations of the works of Argentinian writers Osvaldo Lamborghini and Hector Viel Temperley. He has worked in the contemporary art world for many years, and serves as Director of Communications for Max Protetch Gallery in New York. In addition to writing about art, Krimko is food and wine editor for the website Embury Cocktails.
Allison Power is currently enrolled in the New School’s MFA program in poetry. She is also an editor of art, fashion, and photography books for Rizzoli International Publications in New York and co-edits the poetry journal, MAGGY. Her chapbook You Americans was published by Green Zone Editions in 2008.
Sarah V. Schweig‘s poetry has appeared in Western Humanities Review and online at VerseDaily.com, her prose has appeared in the Park Slope Reader, and an interview with her can be found online at ScatteredRhymes.com. She has poetry forthcoming in Boston Review and a chapbook titled S due out through Dancing Girl Press at the end of this year. She earned a BA in English from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn.
Bianca Stone was born and raised in Vermont and is a recent graduate of the NYU creative writing program in poetry. She co-curates The Ladder Poetry Reading Series in New York at Dixon Place on the Lower East Side. Her most recent poetry publications include The Patterson Literary Review, Fou, Agriculture Reader and Conduit. Apart from writing poetry Bianca is an illustrator and cartoonist, currently working on a collection of works that merge poetry and illustration, exploring the space between genres. Her blog is called Poetry Comics (whoisthatsupposedtobe.blogspot.com).
Micah Towery has his MFA from Hunter College. He currently teaches Writing to ESL students entering grad school at Trinity Western University. He has written film and music reviews for Slant and Patrol Magazine, and his poetry has appeared in magazines like Paterson Literary Review, Gulf Stream, Ragazine.cc, and [Spaces]. He has worked as a Coca-Cola delivery driver, bus driver, baker, and church organist. He likes making as much as he can from scratch.
Joe Weil is a lecturer at SUNY Binghmaton and has several collectins of poetry out there, most recently “The Plumber’s Apprentice” by New York Quarterly press. He makes his home in Vestal, New York.
Samantha Zighelboim is currently in the MFA program at Columbia University. She lives in New York City with Buddha, her cat of surplus pounds. Her translations, poems, and book reviews have appeared in BOMB, Rattapallax, and The People’s Poetry Project. Recently, she was dubbed a “Humanatee,” and the moniker is sticking — with pride.