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Close Encounters of the Royal Kind [by Moira Egan]
[Tropical Weather Patterns in the Eternal City] Please excuse my radio silence, which was mostly due to having spent the past couple of weeks bopping around with my mother, who timed her visit to…
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“Hard Days Night of the Living Dead” [by Truck Darling]
HARD DAY’S NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD“Uptick in suicide seen as a sign of recession?”(poem AGAINST suicide) Don’t look back, the Morton Salt Girlcried, There’s a bad moon on the rise…which I do not…
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The Best Korean Poetry {Loren Goodman}
Left to right: Hayoung You, Porshia Bernard, Mark Brazeal, Danbee Moon, Loren Goodman, HyunJeong Lee, Jiwon Lee, Inhye Choi, Ahyoung Youn, SeoHyun Lee. Not pictured: Jiha Ko, Sanghee Kim. (Photo by Jiha Ko) Poetry…
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Among School Children – What Makes a Great Teacher?
David Lehman's post last week about suicide prompted this comment from Jeff Oaks, Managing Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series. It's worth highlighting here because it illustrates how a seemingly small gesture by…
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“The Rest is Noise” [by Truck Darling]
THE REST IS NOISE“When you’re black & blue it’s time to take a holiday.”for Darragh Park Hey little flutter in mon coeur, I stand alone in some grief-sponged shadow & nap in the halfwayHamptons…
