The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

- August Kleinzahler

There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and…

- August Kleinzahler

I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable h…

- August Kleinzahler