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When Norman Mailer is the Toughest Person You Can Think Of [by Patrick Hunt]
Today’s post is by Patrick Hunt, who is without internet access these days while on assignment teaching at a remote camp. He sent his post in early, along with a few photos that you…
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“Professionalism” (by Anthony Hecht)
The late Anthony Hecht, a poet of great formal prowess, invented the light-verse form known as the double dactyl. The form consists of two quatrains; the last line of the first rhymes withe last…
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“Toasts” [by Lee Upton]
Toasts To the last credentials we have:bottoms up.Cheers to the skipper. Be a sport.During a napmay you put in a brief appearance in heaven and discoverthey’re making a better heaven at last!May this wine…
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The new Michigan Quarterly Review
Highly recommended: the new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by Laurence Goldstein, which has Roger Gilbert’s outstanding essay on recent books by John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich as well as poems by…
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Volunteers [by Rob Shore]
My best friends are snot-nosed sixes, and sixties who look centenarian. My age-kin simply lack the balance of enthusiasm and patience it takes to tolerate an interloper like me. Even when we look good,…
