-
“Visitation” [by Tony Hoagland (1953-2018)]
Now when I visit Ellen’s body in my memory,it is like visiting a cemetery. I lookat the chiseled, muscular bellyand at the perfect thirty-year old breastsand the fine blond purse of her pussyand I…
-
From “Voices of Mississippi 1957” (by Mitch Sisskind)
Reed PolifaxUniversity Student In Mississippi the Polifax name commandsRespect so I need to be careful about whom I marry and that is the reason I pledgedPhi Delta Theta — not that there was Ever…
-
Elizabeth Turk, Sculptor Extraordinaire [by David Lehman]
Do you know the work Of Elizabeth Turk? You should! It's awfully good. http://www.elizabethturkstudios.com/
-
“We’ll catch up some other time. . .” [by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green]
Just listen. Haven't done half the things we wanted – There's so much more embracing still to be done, but time is racing O well — Never have seen you do the dishes —…
-
Met Percent: Week Seven [by Alec Bernstein]
Byzantine Leads to Gothic Sarcophagus, Byzantine, early 300s, gallery 300 Capital with Four Heads, Gothic, 1225–50, gallery 304 Just never saw it that way 1,000 years from the end of Rome to the…
-
Poem for Rosh Hashanah: “For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly” [poem by David Lehman]
Molly with Stick, Cayuga Lake, 1981 (c) Glen Hartley For I will Consider Your Dog Molly For it was the first day of Rosh Ha'shanah, New Year's Day, day of remembrance, of…
