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This Just In: Publishers Weekly Reviews BAP 2010
Congratulations all! You can hear some of these very poets tomorrow night at the New School launch reading (66 W 12th Street, NYC. 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30) Details here. This year's annual roundup…
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“Simple Twists of Fate” – John Findura
On 12 November, 1944 my grandfather, Alister MacMaster, was Wounded in Action during the Lorraine campaign near the small town of Nancy, France during a push by the 80th Infantry Division of Patton’s 3rd…
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Bloof Books Tour: On ten-hour drives, plus a reading report & interview (Peter Davis)
Saturday, at about 11:00pm, we arrive in Raleigh, after driving from Tallahassee. We dropped off kindred spirit Bruce Covey in Atlanta and off we fled, through the hills, through the stoplights and gas stations,…
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“The State of New Jersey Has Licensed Me To Teach Your Children!” – John Findura
So after my first post yesterday I went grocery shopping. No one recognized me or asked for an autograph. I found this highly disconcerting. Instead of getting depressed, I wrote another blog entry…
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“Remorse” [by John Tranter]
(After Baudelaire) When you sleep at last, my darling,for the last time, beneath a slab of stone, when the weight of that slab presses downand crushes the breath from your breathless chest, when your…
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Poem: “The Jewish Biker” — by Mitch Sisskind
This poem is part of my "autobiography as SAT test" project. Read the poem, then answer the question that follows. The correct answer and explanation are below. The Jewish Biker Like a motherfucker he…
