Fifty years ago this month, City Lights Books published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems–a collection ... of failures and lies by “inferior magicians” within the Bush Administration ...

They reveal the intimate negotiations and magic acts of living despite — despite what? Despite. — Elisa Gonzalez is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection “Grand Tour.” ...

By Carolyn Giardina, Mike Barnes Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the ... 1979’s Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies and 1982’s Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody ...

In Not One of These Poems Is About You ... wonder and magic of life alongside its diminishment. Can you talk about working within that juxtaposition? MS: Well, obviously it’s hard.