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“The Coward” [by Eve Merriam]
I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Eve Merriam’s poem "The Coward" ever since I watched, when I was ten or eleven, the 1949 film Home of the Brave on the old…
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Leaving New York: An Experiment (Part II)
[Joy Katz] A composer friend in Manhattan writes: “It is always fascinating and disturbingly intriguing to hear from those who are exploring or have taken the roads out of New York.” It’s a little-known…
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“Some Rain” (by Joy Katz)
Some Rain Freud saw his first patient on a gray morning in Vienna;cobblestones glistened feebly.And it was pouring as Pollock dragged red onto Full Fathom Five.Patty Hearst’s face was grainy and soft, on closed-circuit,as…
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Leaving New York: An Experiment [by Joy Katz]
This week we welcome guest blogger Joy Katz. Joy Katz is the author, most recently, of The Garden Room. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son and teaches poetry writing at The…
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Tennyson Goes To Hellboy
Over the weekend I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the summer’s latest super-hero movie, and, until The Dark Knight arrives in theaters on Friday, the season’s most soulful one. That’s because Hellboy‘s director…
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La Marseillaise (Happy Bastille Day)
At Rick’s Cafe Americain in Casablanca, nasty Nazi Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) leads the stolid German soliders in a patriotic hymn. Resistance fighter Paul Henreid ("Victor Lazlo") find this intolerable and commands the band…
