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Charles Simic’s Roadside Stand
In the watermelon and corn season, The earth is a paradise, the morning Is a ripe plum or a plump tomato We bite into as if it were the mouth of a lover. Despite…
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SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Best American Poetry 2010 launch reading Featuring guest editor Amy Gerstler, series editor David Lehman and an all-star line-up of contributors. Thursday, September 23, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30) The New School…
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From mistress to tyrant
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant.” —Winston Churchill Crazyhorse…
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The Divine Oscar on San Francisco
Everyone knows what Mark Twain said about a San Francisco summer, but Oscar Wilde's observation is equally valid: "It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Lauren Kizi-Ann Alleyne
On the day of your favorite color: Here is the day of pumpkins, their hollow heads lit and leering. Here is the stripped sweetness of candy corn cupped in my hands. Here is fall…
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The Guessing Game (V)
So you think you know poetry! This fellow is (was) 1) Robert Lowell2) James Russell Lowell3) Wallace Stevens4) The author of The Auroras of Autumn5) A Hartford insurance executive If you were a fan…
