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Squibs 289—298 [by Alan Ziegler]
289: The best pitcher on my Little League team announces he doesn’t “feel like playing” and walks off the field. I’ve been making good throws from shortstop, so the coach escorts me to the mound…
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Not Single Spies, But in Battalions [Jeffrey Levine]
Reading to her satisfies and keeps us from the dull ache of not knowing how otherwise to talk, how to fill in the silences, how to understand what’s said in them, the spaces between…
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How To Be a Big-League Critic [by David Lehman]
<<<1. Write that the subject of your choice, “as he [or she] recedes into history, seems more a product of his [or her] time than an agent of transformation.” This can be said of everyone…
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In Other Words [by Jeffrey Levine]
[Poetry is] a means of seeing invisible things and saying unspeakable things about them. – Howard Nemerov I want to write this week about the flesh, about loss, and about my father’s passing at…
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Jeffrey Levine, Guest Author June 17-21
This week we welcome Jeffrey Levine as our guest author. Jeffrey is the author of three books of poetry: Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal,…
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Poem for Father’s Day (Terence Winch)
My father, Paddy Winch (1905–1971), worked as the custodian of St. Thomas Aquinas elementary school in the Bronx, which this poem commemorates. He was a very generous and loving man, much beloved by his…
