Doe

She thought of deer
and how they slipped
through the woods,

invisible,

as if they were
ghosts themselves.

— Alice Hoffman, "The Red Garden"

Cool-looking authors No. 6

Mat Johnson, author of "Pym"
(Photo by Meera Bowman Johnson)

Emily

She liked to disappear,
even when she was
in the same room
as other people.

— Alice Hoffman, "The Red Garden"

Presenting

James Franco
is now
a poet,
don't you
know it.
Franco does it all.

Peabody

The Washington Post has a nice profile of the editor of Gargoyle, the magazine where my first poetry publication appeared. This is Richard Peabody

Facts

Even the poetry at The New Yorker gets fact-checked. From New York Observer.

Cool-looking authors No. 5

A classic. Truman Capote, author of "In Cold Blood," "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Answered Prayers"
(Photo by Carl Van Vechten)

Cool-looking authors No. 4

Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize for Literature recipient, novels include "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved"
(Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)

Cool-looking authors No. 3

Tama Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York" and "A Cannibal in Manhattan" and member of the '80s Literary Brat Pack (ah, those were the days).
(Photo by Stephen Sprouse)

Cool-looking authors No. 2

Will Allison, author of "What You Have Left" and editor of Story magazine
(Photo by Lizzie Himmel)