KALOGERIS IN SLATE

George Kalogeris' first book Camus: Carnets (published by Bill Corbett's Pressed Wafer Press here in Boston) exemplifies the positive qualities of Quietude, and for many of us was a touchstone publication when it came out a few years ago. Slate magazine ran his new poem "Odysseus Seeing Laertes" last week. An interesting debate plays out in the discussion thread following the poem, between those who think the poem's allusion to ancient literature helps, and those feel it obfuscates.

MAZER IN EYEWEAR

Ben Mazer -- who was interviewed in last spring's Clarion by Liza Katz -- has a new hypnotic, brimful poem in Todd Swift's online magazine, Eyewear. A pair of lines as amuse-bouche:

The Botticelli bursts another spring.
It is of florentine silks that I shall sing.

 Mazer's recent collection from The Pen & Anvil Press, POEMS, is now on the shelf for sale at St. Mark's Bookshop in Manhattan's Bowery neighborhood. Support small press publishing, and pick up a copy or tell a friend to do the same.

DAVID FERRY IN SLATE

The esteemed poet and translator David Ferry asks, "What am I doing inside this old man's body?" Read his new poem "Soul" at Slate's Tuesday Poem, edited by Robert Pinsky.