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Notes from confinement: on silence and altering states [by Tracy Danison] C'mon, c'mon let's merry go, merry go, merry go round! (Boop boop boop)Merry go, merry go, merry go round! (Boop boop boop)Merry go,…
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The Aim: to quench your thirst while retaining it [“Stay Thirsty” #107]
The 107th edition of Stay Thirsty magazine was released yesterday, April 17. Included in the new edition are — A conversation with investigative journalist Gerald Posner <<< The tale I tell inside PHARMA about Purdue Pharma…
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“Texting” [by David Lehman, in “The American Journal of Poetry”]
Does the triumph of the text messageover the phone call or voice mailimply that they were wrong all along,those analysts of the textwho said that the spoken wordis invariably valorizedto the detriment of the…
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“The Terrifying Poetry of Ping-Pong” [by Mitch Sisskind]
No Olympic sport is more maddening than ping-pong (I refuse to call it “table tennis.”) The way the ball will just nick the corner of the table can drive anyone mad — especially poets,…
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from “Julius Jaffe: The Analects” (3) (by Mitch Sisskind)
EMUNAHWhen Herman Fishman asked Julius Jaffeto discourse on emunah, Julius Jaffe’s mouth twisted into a rictus as if he were trying to lifta huge weight. Finally Julius Jaffe said, "Fools and sillypeople who refer…
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On Drinking Wine and Working Out: The Group Effect [by Michael Fontaine]
The Bamberg Girl in Poznan, Poland, carries two full buckets of wine on a pole across her shoulders. Talk about a workout! Her family emigrated from the winelands of Bavaria, near Obsopoeus' neck of…
