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Donald Platt: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Poem Written in Winter after Midnight at a Gas Station in Poe, Ohio Death has always been here in the blind spot of my driver’s side wing mirror…
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Allan Bloom on Higher Ed. Today
I asked President Cuckold about antisemitic campus violence last year, and what did he do? He shrugged. Were any of the victims covered by LGBTQ+ proteection? Did they wear skullcaps? Masks? Well, he hadn't…
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May [poem by Tom Disch]
May Such beauty, you sayLet us stop & admireA moment, a dayThe fields & the fire God the great spiderHas caught you again — by Tom Disch
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Shostakovich’s “Tahiti Trot” [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928)Staatsoper BerlinDaniel Barenboim, cond.(4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing…
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Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” — Great Poems of the World, Episode 20, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Desolation Row — Bob Dylan They're selling postcards of the hangingThey're painting the passports brownThe beauty parlor is filled with sailorsThe circus is in townHere comes the blind commissionerThey've got him in…
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Gene “Big Daddy” Lipscomb [by Mitch Sisskind]
Gene asked Jesus for a moment of his time& they got together at the bottom of a mine& Gene asked Jesus for a couple of bucks& Jesus said ducks quack & chickens cluck& Big…
