-
“Bards at the Inaugural Gates” [by David Yezzi]
from the Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 9, 2009:<<<When Barack Obama tapped the poet Elizabeth Alexander, a longtime friend, to read at his inauguration on Jan. 20, he selected a message as well as…
-
Lee Marvin was not a nice guy
If you’ve a hankering to watch some Lee Marvin you probably haven’t seen before, check out my Times piece on the DVD release of the late-50s TV series M Squad here. And the music…
-
Film Still Series – Intimacies # 8 [by Bill Hayward]
From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman. See more…
-
Haiku Exchange #3 [by David Lehman and David Shapiro]
Re: haikus from Sinatra Date: 1/9/03 9:52:43 AM Eastern Standard Time It's quarter to ten: There's no one in the room but rules of haiku! New Year's a season: squirrels contradicting whom —…
-
“Automatic Autumn” [by David St. John]
Automatic Autumn Kasmene was covered with the red dust of the mistral The little blue pins of the pine needles were latticed Like some unfisted riot of storm-blown nightingales’ nests Along both of…