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“Half of an Epic Simile not found in Hesiod” [by A. E. Stallings]
As at the winter solstice, when a faded blondeOn the brink of middle age, goes to the salonTo brighten up her outlook and her spirits(Warm water on her scalp, the rich shampooThat breathes of almond-blossoms), to…
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The Best American Poetry 2020: Guest Editor Paisley Rekdal, Series Editor David Lehman
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title”…
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Robert Hershon: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________ Chatter I did the Saturday puzzle on Sunday and the Sunday puzzle on Saturday and I watched a thousand hours of cops and robbers when…
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Woody Allen, “Apropros of Nothing”: “I’m eighty-four; my life is almost half over.. .”
Woody Allen's autobiography, Apropros of Nothing, is full of pithy bon mots, good humor, and unfailing generosity toward the actors and other professionals he has worked with. His self-deprecating humor is natural to him,…
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Kent Johnson on Ashbery, BAP, and Poetry Re-education Camps
From “Because of Poetry” / by John Bradley A sort of review in Sulfur of the irrepressible Kent Johnson’s defiant new book of poems:Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House (Shearsman Books, $18.00) <<“Say,…
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from “Grand & Ogden Auto Parts” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Norby I got Norby in my office, I said, 'Norby, 'I have an idea, you go out to California 'For three or four months, whatever, 'Six months, go out to California and 'We'll stay…
