-
Even More Mad Men Haiku
Peggy and Draper: Companions in misery, Sleeping on the couch. A mouse, roach, vomit, a fight. Just another night at Sterling Cooper (Draper Price). Drunk Duck’s love story. We were in love. She’s a…
-
More “Mad Men” Haiku
A suitcase means death.Peg cries in the ladies' room.Don cries at his desk. * It's Peggy's birthday.Duck calls her a whore, and DonSwings wildly, too drunk. * "I got rid of him."So fix me…
-
Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Craig Santos Perez
from the ghost of the harvest madonna Tears of the Madonna, the Hunger and Other Stories. “Madonna Rescues Malawian Child – only 12 Million to Go.” A boy with an allergy to ghosts has trouble with too-logical…
-
The Perfect Headline & Lede
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR STOCKS COVER STORY "We're in for more of the same over coming months, our group of market strategists predicts." — from Barron's, September 6, 2010
-
A Different Center [by Dante Micheaux]
The envy of all other arts organizations (because of its titanic wealth), the Poetry Foundation “aspires to alter the perception that poetry is a marginal art, and to make it directly relevant to the…
-
The Ghost in the Martini
Anthony Hecht has a poem called "The Ghost in the Martini." Great title, no? John Cheever has a story in which the first taste of a perfectly chilled martini is the protagonist's best moment…
