Announcing Weekly Column: Best American Poetry Blog
/The Resurrection of "Exquisite Corpse" [by Emma Lazarus]
From 1983 to 1996, the quarterly “Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas” appeared in print. When the human world ended in 1996, Its virtual twin, “Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Life & Letters,” moved online where it led a posthuman existence until 2016. David Lehman suggested that a third resurrection in the post-Twitter age might be called for in the generous confines of the Best American Poetry blog. The Corpse agreed because it felt neither decrepit nor spent. The “Exquisite Corpse: Emma Lazarus” will revive the best of itself in a weekly column.
Andrei Codrescu, editor of "Exquisite Corpse" from womb to tomb and back, will choose the poems to be highlighted and, if we're lucky, he will say a few shrewd things about them.
Both he and I believe in a liberal immigration policy in favor of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
On this post you will find photographs of Andrei Codrescu and me. If you can tell which is which, you win. -- Emma
