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Mitch Sisskind presents “The Big Bang,” a poem by Nevin Schreiner
A poem by my writer friend of many years — The Big Bang This took place when they were half asleepThe way you look when you roll over and say Huh?Dead brained, dream soakedLava eyed. While…
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Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Ciara Mulvihill ___________________________________________________ We Can Move Forward Now My nose is burning from…
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Spontaneous Aphorism: Hope
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." — Mignon McLaughlinThe Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008) The line (which has also been attributed to Jean Kerr) makes it…
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The Allure of the Enigmatic: Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” [by David Lehman]
From The American Scholar (August 25, 2022). Here are the opening paragraphs of my latest "Talking Features" piece: <<<< When it was released in 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up blew the minds of student cineastes and literary…
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A Phone Conversation with David Shapiro in 2009
<<David Shapiro: Today I was thinking that the only time the Beatles sang a Broadway song was when they recorded "Till There Was You" from Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man," and then a few…
