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Amy Pickworth: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________ The Ohio Poem So even after all this timewhen I see a dog that’s eager to biteI think of my darling angry boys of southeastern Ohioskinny…
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On Mayakovsky’s Birthday [from “The Cloud in Trousers” / English version by David Lehman]
On a January night in 2019 at the Russian Samovar in New York City, these lines from Mayakovsky's "Cloud in Trousers" were read aloud. If Vlad had been there, this is how he would…
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Kaveh Akbar Gets an Ace [by Ace Boggess]
A SENSE OF CONNECTION TO THE FAMILIAR (BUT STRANGE TO OTHERS) “Portrait of the Alcoholic, with Craving” by Kaveh Akbar http://bostonreview.net/poetry/NPM-2016-kaveh-akbar-portrait-alcoholic-craving We can’t all be doctors, lawyers, convicts, or carnies. But some of us…
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“May Day” [by Nicholas Christopher]
The demented song of a womanon the street the day one hundredforty four people in this citydie of the same disease Her voice rises and fallsbetween two notesup and down the scaletwo words unintelligible…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Sheila Maldonado
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ copy rong, a video poem by Sheila Maldonado ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Sheila Maldonado is the author of the poetry collections one-bedroom solo (A Gathering of the Tribes / Fly by Night Press, 2011) and that's what you…
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Epitaph for a Genre: On Kubrick’s “The Killing” [by David Lehman]
Adapted by Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson from the pulp novel by Lionel White, The Killing is classic noir. The plot is about an expertly planned racetrack heist that goes spectacularly wrong because the weak link…
