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“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” [by Terence Winch]
I had a falling out with an old friend many years agoand I can’t stand to even hear anything about her. Can’tstand it. Drives me crazy. People say you must tryto transcend it all,…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: The Wrong Sort
When I was an undergrad at a fancy university, I remember being criticized on several occasions for not being “discriminating”—it was suggested I should be more exacting in whom I accepted as friends; it…
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Louis Simpson: Behind Enemy Lines [by David Lehman]
Louis Simpson, who graced the pages of The Best American Poetry three separate times, died on September 14. Born in Jamaica, the West Indies, in 1923, Louis came to the United States at the…
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Blue and Sentimental [by Ira Sadoff]
Last day of blogging and “I’m sweating a lot by now” which is a line from O’Hara’s tribute to Billie Holiday and arguably the best elegy about jazz ever written (“The Day Lady Died”).…
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Frank O’Hara and James Carter: Jouissance by Ira Sadoff
Frank O’Hara, in his mockifesto “On Personism,” writes “I don’t believe in god, so I don’t have to make elaborately sounded structures. I hate Vachel Lindsay, always have; I don’t even like rhythm, assonance,…
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This Just In . . . Bill Hayward in Psychology Tomorrow Magazine Issue 2
Rob Sedgwick (c) Bill Hayward 2012 We're always thrilled when filmaker/photographer Bill Hayward lets us know about recent work. If you follow this link you will find his "Portrait of the Collaborative Self" of…
