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A Peck of Pickles and Poetry [review of “The Pickling Poet”] by Jennifer L. Knox
As a poet and cook, the pickle/poetry connection is obvious to me. A poem preserves a moment. No matter what emotion of that moment (wonder, surprise, grief, love, etc.), in its preserved poem form,…
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Ready, Set, Summer: “Celebrating 100 Years Of Leonard Bernstein, Boston Pops Showcase ‘On The Town’” [by Lloyd Schwartz]
(Ed note: Lloyd Schwartz is the classical music critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and senior editor of Classical Music for New York Arts. His latest book of poems, "Little Kisses," was published by the University of…
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World War II [poem by Edward Field]
During a recent dinner with David Alexander and Richard Howard, David told us the story of 19 year old Sgt. Jack Coleman Cook, who gave poet Edward Field his place in the life raft…
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Next Line, Please: What You Will Miss the Most [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please, contributors were tasked with a formidable concept: the creation of a new hero. Lord Byron begins Don Juan, his comic masterpiece, with the lines “I want a hero,…
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Squibs 245, 246 [by Alan Ziegler]
245. While in college, my songwriting partner and I bus to Manhattan from Schenectady to audition for Vanguard records. We don’t get a contract and my guitar is stolen from the waiting room. Back in…
