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Quel cirque! Contemporary European circus, the body, trauma, fate, explained [By Tracy Danison]
“Bestiaire/Vestiaire” by Antoine Linsale. Photo © Christophe Raynaud de Lage Earlier in the month, I went to see circus-act finalists and winners of this year’s Circusnext selection process. Circusnext is a Europe-wide organization that…
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From “Can Literacy Be Saved?” [by M . D. Aeschliman]
<< The central belief in “moral imagination” that inspired Burke, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, and Anglo-American humanistic educators such as Irving Babbitt, John Erskine (“the moral obligation to be intelligent”), F. R. Leavis [pictured left],…
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A Review of Nin Andrews’ Son of a Bird [by Dante Di Stefano]
Son of a BirdNin AndrewsEtruscan Press, 2025 A little more than a year ago, Nin Andrews asked me to write a blurb for her new book. This is what I wrote: Son of a…
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“Go Youth” [by James Tate]
Go Youth I was in a dreamstate and this was causing a problemwith the traffic. I felt lonely, like I’d missed the boat,or I’d found the boat and it was deserted. In the middleof…
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Four Short Poems by Howard Nemerov
The God of This World He smiles to see his children, born to sin,Digging those foxholes there are no atheists in. A Sacrificed Author ‘Father’, he cried, after the critics’ chewing,‘Forgive them, for they…
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Duke Rhino Speaks [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Words of Duke Rhino 1. Never in his life had he said ipso factoNor quid est demonstratum had heEver spoken but one time he said viz.It was after a night of smelt fishingWhen we were just…
