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Wise Words from VW (by Laura Orem)
from "On Being Ill" by Virginia Woolf: We need the poets to imagine for us…Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts.We cannot command all our faculties and keep our…
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Monday @ KGB: Mahogany Browne and Thomas Sayers Ellis
Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar co-sponsors a reading with Cave Canem. Featuring . . . Mahogany L. Browne is the author of several books, including her latest collection of poems Swag, and the…
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Brian Clements Presents One More Poem by Morton Marcus
Navel 1. Button sewn to our skin, the thread bitten off by the eternal seamstress, the darner of celestial socks. Sewn to our chests that way, you would think it holds body and…
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Get the Hell Into Dodge [by Jerry Williams]
I am writing to you from deep in the bowels of the Robert Treat Motel in Newark, New Jersey, where I am participating in this year’s Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival (http://www.dodgepoetry.org/). I’m glad that…
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“Among My Souvenirs” [by David Lehman]
<<The use of "Among My Souvenirs" in The Best Years of Our Lives is exemplary. Edgar Leslie’s 1927 lyric communicates regret at the passing of time. Trinkets and tokens diligently collected and treasured offer…
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The Detective Hero (by Larry Epstein)
Did Robert B. Parker ever write a bad sentence? The question arose as I read Parker's latest Spenser novel, Painted Ladies. The book has a bittersweet aura. I always enjoy Parker's spare prose and…
