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  • The Tarot Master Read My Book. Now I just Need to Write it! by Amy Glynn

    February 18, 2014

    Look, I’m a multi-generational Northern California native. I have taken a ten year old to see a shaman. (She wanted to know more about her past lives. What was I supposed to do, say…

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  • “A Dream of Archie Ammons” (whose birthday this is) [by Jim Cummins]

    February 18, 2014

                            Last night I read “Part Ten” of Archie Ammons’s Garbage out loud, twice, in an empty room. Then listened in embarrassment to hear if anyone was listening.   I’d bought the book so…

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  • Rusty Water & Interrupture [by Julia Cohen]

    February 18, 2014

    Hi. It’s Tuesday as you read this but I’m writing on Monday. I’ve eaten 1.5 English muffins and drank countless cups of ginger tea. Rusty water sputtered out of my kitchen tap on Thursday…

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  • Which lines did the murderer quote?

    February 17, 2014

    The murderer played by Henry Silva in a 1956 episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" quotes lines from this romantic poem: The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean,The winds of…

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  • Ten Years Ago Today, in NYC photo by W.T. Pfefferle

    February 17, 2014

    This photo arrived in today's in-box along with the message "10 years ago we met to chat for my Poets on Place book. I'll always be in your debt." W. T. Pfefferle. Find Poets…

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  • TONIGHT at KGB: Tony Towle + Michael McDonough

    February 17, 2014

    KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Tony Towle + Michael McDonough Monday, Feb. 17, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors…

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