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“The Inevitable ‘But’” [by David Lehman and David Shapiro]
The Inevitable "But" But who can paint the snow?Can you?My nudes wear snowflake bikinis. A Barnard grad on skisasked: may I edit your genius?(But who can paint the snow?) A good fact-checker, for such am I,can collect…
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David Mamet on the overuse of “Fuck” & the deprivation of its force
<<< As a young man I’d been excused from the politesse of a middle-class upbringing, and found myself free to figure it out or starve. I found my day-to-day and hand-to-mouth employment among folk…
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Michael Palma: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ The Golden Years You don’t know how to use the phones. Everyone mumbles on TV. A…
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Writing for Fools [by Arthur Schopenhauer]
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” "”The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the…
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On Paul Violi’s ‘EXACTA’ [by Martin Stannard]
This little essay could easily be called “Why I Am Not A Scholar”, for in attempting to write about a poem that I love and which in some ways changed my life I immediately…
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Breaking through: Candice Martel’s Électro-Tap [By Tracy Danison]
“Electro-tap”, music to see vs. dance to listen to by Candice Martel. Photo © WEB – Candice Martel In October 732, Charles Martel, “martel” meaning “hammer”, beat a Berber army under Abd al-Rahman ibn…
