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Archives for February 2026
Robert Nichols’s Indelible Railroad Poems Back in Print
Just received a masterly bilingual edition in English and German of “Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train” by Robert Nichols. It is the latest in Stadtlichter Presse’s bilingual Heartbeats series devoted to American poets of the Beat generation.
THE BLACK SCHOONER
Amistad Slave Rebellion Retold in New Graphic Novel
Before Black History Month runs out, let’s note that David Lester has a new graphic novel in the works: THE BLACK SCHOONER. “It tells the true story of the 1839 uprising aboard the Amistad,” Lester says, and is one of a “growing number of titles depicting history from below.”
Peter Mathiessen Had Many Eagle-Eyed Identities
Among them were novelist, naturalist, fisherman, CIA spy.
AI Is Working on It
Do you remember January 6?
Gone Fishing
![Jan Herman at Offprint Paris, 2013 [Photo: Ben Schot]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JH-offprintparis-beaux-arts-2-1200-e1384877771466.jpg)
I’d like to say I’ve gone fishing … ice fishing, given the weather … but in truth all I’m doing is taking a break.