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THE MOODY TEMPLE and A HUM-DRUM NOT KNOWING [by John Hennessy]
SIFNOS (c) IAN MACLELLAN Psalm on Sifnos By Stephen Yenser One does not want, O Lord, to heapUp by still watersOf words a cairnBut hopes to attendA small covertOf tamariskWhose leaves saltyYet featheryWill shed…
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Sharon Dolin: The Hunters and the Hunted
I am residing next to a hunting club. Every day, since I arrived, groups of men go past my window early each morning, busy with preparations for a midday feast that took place today.…
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Preview from Paris: Michael Gorra’s “Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece” (by Alice Kaplan)
Last week I was wandering around the giant warehouse of a bookstore on the rue de Rennes called the FNAC, and in a fit of nostalgia I found myself face- to-face with the “Literary…
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Jill Allyn Rosser presents a poem by Denise Duhamel
The poem I’m presenting today is by Denise Duhamel, one of America’s most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. I love the way she’ll grab hold of a thought that looks straightforward, then turns into…
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APOLLONIA: Greetings from Sifnos by John Hennessy
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…
