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  • “No Love Is Not Dead” [by Robert Desnos; trans. Bill Zavatsky]

    October 13, 2008

    No Love Is Not Dead             No love is not dead in this heart and these eyes and this mouth that proclaimed the beginning of its own requiem.          …

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  • Mad Men tonight: Fall 1962

    October 12, 2008

    Tonight’s episode of Mad Men was filled with even more cultural markers than usual. It’s late September 1962. Kurt, who comes out of the closet in a matter-of-fact "European" way, has taken in Bob…

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  • Sunday [by Mark Ford]

    October 12, 2008

       It’s a calm and sparkling day in North London, the weather mockingly at odds with the language of gloom and panic suffusing the papers and airwaves. Money, Wallace Stevens once suggested, is a…

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  • Mark Ford, Guest Blogger October 12-18

    October 12, 2008

    Mark Ford lives in London.  He is the editor of Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara (Knopf, 2008) and the Library of America edition of John Ashbery’s Collected Poems, the first volume of which has…

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  • Bruce Covey presents Reb Livingston

    October 12, 2008

    My Dearest Best American Poetry and/or Coconut Reader, if you’ve ever connected to the World Wide Web over the past five years, you surely recognize the name of Rebecca “Reb” Livingston, poetry’s most forthright…

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  • Film Still Series – #35

    October 12, 2008

    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.

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