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JUST EXPERIMENTING WITH O’HARA, by Greg Hewett
Still thinking about the mainstreaming of gay culture, and more specifically, gay poetry, and I am struck by the fact that so many of the touchstone poets for younger poets today happen to be…
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Brooklyn Garden [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Exhibit A, my friend the B. Exhibit B, a baby pickle, brineless, yet, but consider the bad music of the word cucumber and the nuclear cuteness of cuke and you'll se why i went…
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAY LITERATURE, by Greg Hewet
Next month, as part of a series guest-edited by Mark Doty, Graywolf Press will reissue James White’s uber-lyrical, posthumous 1982 The Salt Ecstasies. This has got me thinking about what may be only an…
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“THE TORSO” AND POETICAL ALCHEMY, by Greg Hewett
I read Ekbert Fass’s biography of Robert Duncan when it came out in 1983, and was floored to learn that Duncan had a visceral first reaction to H.D. similar to my own. I believe…
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Garden Update 2 (by Laura Orem)
More garden pictures. Of course, this is nothing compared to my neighbor's 2-acre plot, but I'm starting to get excited. The Amazing Atomic Zucchini Plant Sweet pepper: More sweet peppers. I planted seven…
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Did you hear what happened when the German bath-fixture company purchased the animal rendering plant?
As you can imagine, things went from Bad to Wurst.