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  • “Mad Men”: Last Night in Manhattan [by Connie Aitcheson]

    May 28, 2012

               Wow. By the end of Mad Men last night, I wasn’t thinking of The Kinks' Girl, You Really Got Me (1964) but a line from Maurice Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls – “for…

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  • John Allan Wyeth: Lost Poet of the Lost Generation by Bradley Omanson

    May 27, 2012

    Of all the writers of the Lost Generation, there was perhaps none quite so lost as John Allan Wyeth.  Until his 1928 book of war poems was reprinted by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli in…

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  • Good-bye, Carrie Smith

    May 27, 2012

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  • Oh, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off!

    May 26, 2012

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  • Where Does My Body Live? – Kenji C. Liu [Asian Pacific American Heritage Month]

    May 26, 2012

    * Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu - Craig Santos Perez - Ching-In Chen - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Andre Yang - Barbara Jane Reyes As someone who was raised as a man, my gender is an incredibly slippery experience to write…

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  • Resisting the Narrowing of Community – Barbara Jane Reyes [Asian Pacific American History Month]

    May 25, 2012

    * Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu - Craig Santos Perez - Ching-In Chen - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Andre Yang When Kenji Liu invited me here to write about APIA poetry communities, I confess, I wanted to rant about…

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