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And the Winner Is . . . (drum roll) : Carly Sachs!
Last week, we announced a contest to see who could come up with the best pantoum or villanelle based on the lines one might hear while on hold with an insurance company. Details are…
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Yes, Virginia– You Can Say “Merry Christmas” by Jamie Katz
A pair of high-spirited teenage girls scurried across a busy Manhattan intersection, braving the crowds and frosty weather to hit one more Fifth Avenue shop before closing time. I was a step behind them…
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Last poem before Christmas! (by Mitch Sisskind)
Poem: He wore an alarm clock… He wore an alarm clock around his neck, Pendant-like, hung by a shiny chain; At the place on Diversey, I forget its name, He ate a hamburger in…
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I watched the Moon around the House (629) by Emily Dickinson
I watched the Moon around the HouseUntil upon a Pane — She stopped — a Traveller’s privilege — for Rest — And there upon I gazed — as at a stranger — The Lady in the TownDoth…
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Not very Christmassie…. (by Mitch Sisskind)
I apologize but at this time of year the Cuban missile crisis is often on my mind. Poem, 12-20-2010 A sad and strange dream Of the ’62 missile crisis And high school football, At…
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Argument by Amy Glynn Greacen
A prominent poet who shall go unnamed once sat down across the table from me, a manila folder of my drafts in one hand, and said, without so much as a hello:“You know what’s…
