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Happy Fasnacht Day! (by Laura Orem)
It's Shrove Tuesday, and while New Orleans may have Mardi Gras, we here in Pennsylvania Dutch Country have Fasnacht Day. What is a fasnacht, you ask? It is a kind of super-doughnut, made with…
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Come on out on Wednesday night! (David Yezzi)
Swallow Press & Book Culture invite you to a reading to celebrate The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets with Daniel Brown, John Foy, George Green & Molly McQuade.Introduced by David Yezzi Wednesday, February…
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Robert Creeley, LSD, and Thee by Jerry Williams
First, let me introduce myself. My entire family, on both sides, originated from Harlan, Kentucky, a coal town in the southeastern part of the Bluegrass State, a place of great importance to labor historians…
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XXVIII. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala [1975] (by Lewis Saul)]
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
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Forever “Nu?” Part Two (by Mitch Sisskind)
"Nu?" — it always appears with a question mark — is best defined linguistically rather than lexiographically. But let's leave that to others! The best way to know "nu?" is by watching "nu?" in…
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Mozart in the Morning [by Grace Cavalieri]
for Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010 The moon reappeared last night as though nothing had happened and in the morning I played Mozart because she loved fancy music as well as jazz. When we are tired…
