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Mitch Sisskind presents a poem by Erika Moya
A Trail Leading Back an old sage once told me that when you find someone you like, you take them by the ankles and you shake them. all their good qualities, the things…
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Poem: “In the Brevoort Hotel…” (by Mitch Sisskind)
I have always loved hotels and my time as night desk clerk at the Belden-Stratford Hotel in Chicago was a wonderful gift. In the Brevoort HotelHe met Helene Shrubbie.In the Dorchester Arms,Orly Samelius was…
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Nicholson Baker writes a novel about a poet compiling an anthology
It won't be published for another week or so, but may I enthusiastically recommend Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, a new novel about a poet who has writer's block composing the introduction to a poetry…
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The Limits of Palmistry [from a conversation with David Shapiro]
David Shapiro (pictured left with son Daniel): "Leonardo believed in reading palms until he saw the long life-lines on the palms of young soldiers dead on the field."David Lehman: "That's a great line."DS: "I…
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Available Surfaces II: The Gravitas of Paper [T.R. Hummer]
"Another damned, thick, square book. Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?" –William Henry, First Duke of Gloucester In the late spring of 2001, the boxes began arriving. Buoyant gentlemen in brown uniforms…
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Till There Was You [by David Shapiro]
<<Today I was thinking that the only time the Beatles sang a Broadway song was when they recorded "Till There Was You" from Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man," and then a few thoughts occurred…
