You know how it is—someone gives you a gift subscription, and you keep renewing, and before you know it 15 years have gone by. For a while Harper’s was the only magazine we took, but eventually even that subscription bit the dust.
Jake Silverstein
But I had my memories. For instance, Gone when police got there.
“Ranting well is the best revenge,” a reply by director Billy Bermingham to Chicago theater critic Adam Langer, is, unfortunately, only for paid subscribers at Harper’s but can be read here. Ditto “Preserving masculinity” and If we could talk to the animals.
But generous hearts at Harper’s have released Jake Silverstein’s What is poetry? And does it pay? for the world to read. If you’re familiar with Dana Gioia’s landmark essay Can poetry matter? you owe it to yourself to counterbalance Gioia’s tender view with a look at the dark underbelly of the poetry industry via Jake Silverstein. Undercover. In Reno.
