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Mad Men by Jim Cummins
Two men walk through the boardroom. Each one carries a spear; each wears a mask. Each man is afraid of his own death, but is no less willing to strike, to rend, kill. Each…
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MFA Rankings – Not Again!
It's hard to believe that Poets and Writers returned to the same poisoned well that it drank from last year for a ranking of MFA programs but it did, with the same misleading and…
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In-patients by Amy Lemmon
Ed note: We posted last week about Bob Bowen, who was killed recently in a hit-and-run accident, leaving behind his two children Bobby and Stella, our friend the poet Amy Lemmon and countless others…
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The Latest on the Flap
Kent Johnson, on the Isola blog, writes,<<<On 9/4/10, Richard Owens, poet and publisher of Punch Press, soon to release A Question Mark above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “by”…
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Sports Desk: Manny, Summer’s Done and Gone [Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
Manny, Summer’s Done and Gone. I was at this party in the Hollywood hills and everyone was reading poems aloud. Really. And not even a bunch of poets. There were artists and curators…
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“The Duel” [by John Tranter]
(After Baudelaire) Two writers savaged each other: reviews, Letters to the Editor, then a brawl at a gallery with broken glass and shrieking socialites – youth, drink, vanity, sexual rivalry. Soon it’s teeth and…
