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Edna St. Vincent, M. F. A. [by Mary Jo Salter]
Chic and petite, blind to her destinyof being hailed upon her death the worstsometimes-excellent poet in history,she ran the reading series, and ranked firstin her year despite some issues, namely thosepretentious, creaky sonnets emailed…
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“Dependable Epigraphs” [by Tony Towle]
Dependable Epigraphs My epigraphs will prepare you for the excursion but not for the ruts in the road. …
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Mr. Boyfriend [by Mary Jo Salter]
New lover, known and unknown,you’ve risen before dawnand, delicious in suit and tie,you lean down to the bedto kiss my rumpled headthe tenderest goodbye. A military bearingadheres to what you’re wearing.Oh, how many yearswho…
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Charles Bernstein: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________________ On Election Day I hear democracy weep, on election day. The streets are filled with brokered promise, on election…
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“November Graveyard” [by Sylvia Plath]
The scene stands stubborn: skinflint treesHoard last year’s leaves, won’t mourn, wear sackcloth, or turnTo elegiac dryads, and dour grassGuards the hard-hearted emerald of its grassinessHowever the grandiloquent mind may scornSuch poverty. No dead…
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What Really Happened: November 22, 1963 [by David Lehman]
Every year on this day I think unfailingly of three things: — that today is Hoagy Carmichael's birthday, which I imagine him celebrating quietly with a glass of bourbon as he tickles the ivories…
