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My Favorite Buckley by Rachel Shukert
I couldn't let this post at We Who Are About To Die go by without posting in response my own personal William F. Buckley clip, which might actually be close to my favorite moment…
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The Wall (Street) of Worry: What To Do With Your Money Now
We received a recent inquiry from a poet wondering how to invest a small inheritance she received on the death of her father and stepmother in a car accident last winter. The sum was…
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“A Place” by Robert Schultz / “Ancestral Altar” by Binh Danh
A PLACE He makes altars for the lost, a placeTo pray and to question the dead.He makes portraits out of sun and leaves. To pray and to question the dead,I sit before ancestral altars.They…
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Bridget Meeds on Jay Leeming’s Poetry
From the Ithaca Times (May 10, 2006): <<When reading Jay Leeming's first collection of poems, Dynamite on a China Plate, it's hard not to think of fathers. Along with his literal father Joseph (who…
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There Oughta Be A German Word For That! by Rachel Shukert
I don't know how many of you are aware of my Tumblr, There Oughta Be A German Word For That! My guess is probably relatively few. For the vast majority of you who are…
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The Reading I Can’t Attend, But Hope You WILL
Exactly one year ago today, I was in Switzerland on a visit. I stayed with my dear, dear friend Susana Gardner in her home in Wallisellen. We drank, we gossiped, we plotted world poetic…
