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From the Archives: A Christmas Sermon by Jill Alexander Essbaum (December 25, 2010)
(Yup. What follows is a Christian, Christmas sermon. You've been warned.) A couple of weeks ago I was on a flight from Palm Springs, returning home from the December residency of the MFA low-res…
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“Downton Abbey” and “Mrs. Miniver”
Like other anglophiles who spent a few years in England and understands the heroic significance of World War II (Dunkirk, blackouts, Hail Brittania! pomp, circumstance, and the bulldog at Ten Downing Street!) to the…
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Oh, the weather outside is frightful. . .
It snowed overnight. . . but we've got brand new snow tires and Mr Sinatra to croon the words by Sammy Cahn, the music by Jule Styne.
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“Ode on Punctuation” [by David Lehman]
A poem without punctuation is female. – Pauline Ambrozy The comma is female,The exclamation point male,The semi-colon is fem bi-curious sub 29 Virginia. The apostrophe is prosperous, possessive (femme)The colon looks both ways before…
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Bing and Bowie
One of my favorite holiday television moments. Hokey 1970s Christmas special set-up, but worth it when you hear how sweetly Bing's baritone and David Bowie's crystal-clear tenor blend together, and when you realize that…
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“There was a bottle of whiskey and two shot glasses”: Who has “The Formula”?
Congratulations to David Lehman for having his poem "The Formula" featured on today's Poetry Daily site. Read the poem here. "The formula" originally appeared in The New Criterion (December 2011). — sdh
