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Prompts: A Writer’s Dozen (one more than a baker’s dozen) [by Alan Ziegler]
To prompt or not to prompt? Is a piece of writing any less yours because it came from a prompt? Should a true artist even need to be prompted? Save these questions for the…
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MYSTERIES OF PARIS [poem by Laurence Goldstein]
“Note: The story of ‘The Vanishing Lady’ is a fair specimen of folklore in the making. For such a story to travel round the world by word of mouth, it is necessary that…
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Interviews With Poets: Matthew Zapruder [by Erin Belieu]
Hello again. Another quick and impertinent Interviews With Poets before scrambling off to more reading gigs. I’ll be schlepping around for my about-to-be-released book Slant Six from now till December (Columbus, St. Louis, San…
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The Guggenheim Fellowship Poem [by David Lehman]
Do they still write "The Guggenheim Fellowship Poem,"which takes place in Italy — in Venice, often, but sometimes Florencewith side trips to Siena, and maybe Arezzo, and certainly Ravenna,and once in a while Naples?…
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The Hole Truth [ by Charles Coe]
This is the view from my front door. Nowadays the sewer drains, utilities, streets and sidewalks are being redone all over my neighborhood as part of a massive public works project. Most folks around…
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Sinatra in fedora and trenchcoat [photo credit: Phil Silvers]
Phil Silvers, who wrote the lyrics for "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)," took this photo. . .
