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  • “Even Strangers Are Not Strangers” [by Major Jackson]

    March 5, 2009

    Even Strangers are Not Strangers Winter’s early evening, and I pull two duvets like cloudsof moonlight above our shoulders. Our bodies fall into formation.\Even the lamps are spellbound. I’ve said a hundred prayersto her…

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  • The Dylan Watch (by Lawrence J. Epstein)

    March 4, 2009

        In "Red River Shore," Dylan sings of a wise woman he wanted to wed who offered him the best advice she had: "Go home and lead a quiet life." Whether real or symbolic,…

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  • Lee Upton at the New School [reviewed by Angela Patrinos]

    March 4, 2009

    "Cocktail Hour with Lee Upton” At the New School last night, Lee Upton told us that it’s been a lifetime since she was drunk. “I only had maybe a thimbleful of alcohol at the…

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  • Note about a thing

    March 4, 2009

    I can't help thinking people would like to know about this. It's interesting to know about, I think, even if you couldnt or wouldnt go.  Also I like regaling you will the many odd…

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  • Limo and Fonzie

    March 4, 2009

    Hello peeps.   First of all….I am happy to announce the publication of my brother's poetry book!   I'll leave the describe to the bookscribe: Limousine, Midnight Blue. This sequence of fifty 14-line poems…

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  • Poems for the First 100 Days [Nicole Cooley]

    March 4, 2009

      Here's a shout-out to the blog started by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, Poems for the First 100 Days. (Full disclosure: my own poem is up today on the site.) Arielle and Rachel sent…

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