From the Nets
Men with Jewfish, Key West, ca. 1935. From the Dale McDonald Collection, via the Monroe County Public Library on Flickr Today's haul from the deep:
• Jewfish, Amberjack, or Black Drum? Carol Frost takes a look at Elizabeth Bishop's Key West notebooks and tries to determine which Keys fish was the basis for her poem "The Fish."
• "The Symbol," a new poem by Billy Collins, is in Slate.
• Richard Wilbur reading at the 92nd Street Y
• Tod Marshal interviews Yusef Komunyakaa for Poetry
• Kay Ryan is named to a second term as United States Poet Laureate
• BOMB on KWLS '09 speaker John Wray: "The Lowdown on Lowboy." Wray also joined PaperCuts's Living With Music series.
• Alan Cheuse's new book, a collection of travel writings, is on shelves now: A Trance After Breakfast.
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