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A Curse on Blockheads [by Walter Carey]
Again thanks to Stacey Harwood for this opportunity to air my stray thoughts. . . I am a reader of poetry, get BAP annually, but write very little. . .mainly prose poems like the…
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Chris Mason: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________ Pocket Dial Cell phone pocket dials daughter sleeping with boyfriend, pre-dawn. Crickets, truck banging around, cell phone doesn’t dial cranky exuberant Mrs. Deemer, or the…
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919-2021 [by Michael Palma]
For a number of years the editors of Italian Americana gave the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. The following citation appeared in the Summer 2008 issue to announce the awarding of…
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“Days of 1896” [by C. P. Cavafy]
He became completely degraded. His erotic tendency,condemned and strictly forbidden(but innate for all that), was the cause of it:society was totally prudish.He gradually lost what little money he had,then his social standing, then his…
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My Body, Take and Eat. Or: Sermon on Her Mound [by Jill Alexander Essbaum]
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2: 17 (A disclaimer:…
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Introducing Emily Dickinson, part II: A Loaded Gun [by David Lehman]
Emily Got Her Gun Like many other readers, I have long been fascinated by Emily Dickinson's poem #764, which has instigated much commentary and many conflicting opinions: My Life had stood — a Loaded…
