selliott

Jane Sherman (1908-2010)

Jane Sherman was born on June 14, 1908 in Beloit, Wisconsin, the daughter of advertising writer Horace Humphrey Sherman and opera singer Florentine St. Clair Sherman. Her formal dance studies began at the age of thirteen, after the family had moved to New York and she saw Ruth St. Denis perform the Brahms Waltz and…

Rae Armantrout receives NBCC Award

Rae Armantrout’s Versed has received the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Poetry category. James Marcus discusses poetry finalist Rae Armantrout’s Versed (Wesleyan University Press) For much of her lengthy career, Rae Armantrout has cocked a skeptical eye at the American language—as if it needed a background check and a good body frisk. It wasn’t…