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  • The Year in Review: APOLLONIA: Greetings from Sifnos [by John Hennessy, July 22, 2012]

    November 30, 2012

     SIFNOS (c) IAN MacLELLAN Greetings from Sifnos, Greece, an island in the Western Cyclades, quiet sibling to the flashier and better known Santorini and Mykonos.  Before I arrived this summer for my tenth return…

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  • ELLISTON POET R.I.P, PART 2 [by Jim Cummins]

    November 29, 2012

    So last night I'm in this mellow mood–autumnal, musing. Thinking about "the old days," remembering when I asked my grandmother what it had felt like to her to have lived through horses & buggies,…

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  • The Year in Review: Color, Scent, and Exile (by Sharon Dolin, July 26, 2012)

    November 29, 2012

    Birthday Macarons from Le Varens de Gens, neighboring town This was my birthday present from Cheryl and John, who hosted a fabulous birthday dinner party for me in the garden here. It's a feast…

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  • Happy Birthday, Marilyn Hacker (by Jenny Factor)

    November 28, 2012

    Tuesday marked the birthday of poet, Marilyn Hacker. In her honor, I've been thinking about a writing an odd multi-part fairy tale poem, based around a particular Grimm story, and featuring a transgendered bear.…

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  • “every day millions of people die for our sins” [by Dina Gatina]

    November 28, 2012

    every day millions of people die for our sinsso what I won't say it twice let in a littleintime every day millions of people die for our sinsso whatyou're repeating yourselfso what, so what…

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  • WILLIAM BLAKE (11/28/1757) by Anthony Madrid (via facebook)

    November 28, 2012

    *I* have had just about all I can take Happy birthday, William Blake Planing and sawing before I’m awake Happy birthday, William Blake The God of our Fathers is still on the make Happy…

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