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  • How to Hide [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    May 2, 2011

    How'd they find Osama? They were following a guy who they had known was connected to him since before 9/11, they follow such guys, and this guy led them to a weird house. So…

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  • Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden

    May 2, 2011

    W.H.Auden Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;He knew human folly like the back of his hand,And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;When…

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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    May 2, 2011

    . Did you know that STC joined the British cavalry under the name Silas Tomkyn Comberback? This didn't work out too well because of his tendency to fall off his horse. See Tom Clark's…

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  • “so we talk into the night” : talkstory for Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month – Patricia Y. Ikeda

    May 2, 2011

    You old-timers like fo’ complain.No mo’ moi nowadays, no mo’ papioNo mo’ nothin’. from “No Mo’ Fish on Maui,” Barry Masuda My mom grew up in Hawai’i, a Nisei (second generation Japanese American) whose…

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  • Monday @ KGB: Dorothea Lasky, Star Black + David Yezzi

    May 1, 2011

    KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present…   Dorothea Lasky, Star Black + David Yezzi   May 2 Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez and Michael Quattrone Reading starts at 7:30pm Admission is FREE…

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  • A Week of Asian Pacific Islander American Poetry – Kenji C. Liu

    May 1, 2011

    May is Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage Month, and I'm happy to have been given the opportunity to take this week to introduce the Best American Poetry audience to some worthy American poets…

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