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Next Line, Please: Your Ghostly Companion [by Virginia Valenzuela]
In Andrei Codrescu's book, The Poetry Lesson, the poet draws upon one of his many interesting teaching strategies to produce a unique sort of assignment. He assigns each student a “ghostly companion”—a poet, any poet,…
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“The Monday morns, the Monday morns . . .”
"Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not…
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Raphael Rubinstein on “the best job in the world” [by Raphael Rubinstein]
<<<One day a novice writer and college dropout submits a short story to a hip literary magazine named for a pair of then notorious avenues on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Although he lives far…
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Blurred around the Edges: A Memory of the Future [by Elizabeth Spires]
A few years ago I came across an intriguing passage in THE ZEN OF CREATIVITY by John Daido Loori that caught my attention because it seemed so violently opposed to the way…
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DL’s Drink of the Summer: The Paloma [by David Lehman]
Each summer I specialize in a new cocktail. One summer (2001) it was Bellinis with fresh white peach puree More than one summer it was daiquiris with fresh squeezed lime juice, quick-melting sugar,…
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Professor Post Posts on Yenser’s Merrill [by Jonathan Post]
James Merrill, The Book of Ephraim, Annotated and Introduced by Stephen Yenser (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018). There is a lovely moment in Langdon Hammer’s biography of James Merrill…
