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“For Anne Gregory” [by William Butler Yeats]
'Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.' 'But I can get a hair-dyeAnd set such colour there,Brown, or black, or…
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Squibs 381-387 [by Alan Ziegler]
381:Everyone has stories to tellSome big, some small—Know someone long enough and wellYou’ll hear them all,Though details may morph as years swellAnd tales grow tall. 382: Hey cowboys, a traveling tip: It’s better to ride…
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Grace Schulman Remembers Harold Bloom
from the current issue of Literary Matters, this excerpt from Grace Schulman's eloquent "Remembering Harold Bloom": <<<Harold Bloom had been my friend since 1989, when I received bound proofs of The Book of J. David…
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A Grateful Reminiscence of Harold Bloom [by Willard Spiegelman]
The current issue of Literary Matters includes "A Garland for Harold Bloom." For the other entries, click here. <<<In one of my earliest years as an assistant professor, the man who hired me at…
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“Why Rimbaud” [by David Shapiro]
Why Rimbaud for D. L. Why Rimbaud, ambivalent boy Who renounced music Geology, murder, adulthood, throwing a stone at a stranger A butterfly lands on his lapel like a Jewish…
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from “Literary Matters,” A Poem by A. F. Moritz: “High Windows”
High Windows This is the jobthat finallythey gave me:in spring, in autumnto sweep up the bodiesof finchesaround the basesof the crystal-windowedtowers. When I used to sleepon the streets,it was similar: one of usdied, the…
