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“Gratitude” [by Ernest Hilbert]
Gratitude Pity the poor workhorse Philoctetes.He smokes, watches lightning over the graves,Exiled to a swampy, littered ruin.Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus—Writers love him, or his predicament.He’s too foul to have around, but in a crisisHe’s wanted,…
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Lord John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: “What do women want?” (by Mitch Sisskind)
Plato asserted that poetry should be taught because it makes people better lovers. Well, John Wilmot (1647–1680) certainly wrote some great poems. He was also, in a rather decadent way, quite popular with the…
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The palm at the end of the holiday season [by Moira Egan]
And tomorrow is Epiphany. What epiphanies have you had lately? * * * Coming this week: John Ashbery in Poesia (#234, to be exact).
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More Bits and Bobs for the New Year – Twenty Questions
H. L. Hix's Twenty Questions aroused a lot of interest among readers last year. These responses, from Katy Evans-Bush, came in a week or so after Hix finished his stint as our guest blogger.…
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“The Mask” [by Valery Larbaud]
A note on Valery Larbaud by Bill Zavatsky: Poet, novelist, short-story writer, and belles-lettrist, Valery Larbaud was born in Vichy, France, in 1881. His father was the wealthy proprietor of a mineral water springs,…
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More Bits and Bobs for the New Year
Still cleaning out the e-mail box. This comes from Smartish Pace, which hosted David Lehman's reading at KGB bar last October 4. Here's a slide show with audio. Enjoy! — sdh
