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Fragments 184-193 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
184. She broke his heart in two. Then she quartered it. But each portion regenerated. Now he could run for miles, make love, weep at a sad movie, and still have one cold heart…
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Poetry in outer space with Billy Collins and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli [by David Lehman]
Billy Collins went to outer space, at least his voice did, and launched Emily Dickinson in orbit. Come fly with me, let;'s fly, let's fly awayIf you can useSome exotic boozeThere's a bar in…
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Time, Fear, Lust, Truth, and Grant’s Tomb [by David Lehman]
Next Line, Please this week features outstanding poems by some Next Line, Please regulars in response to the previous week's prompt that I posted. The column is called "Time, Fear, Lust, Truth, and Grant’s…
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The Ghosts All Wear Confederate Gray: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Nin Andrews’ Miss August
Miss AugustNin AndrewsCavanKerry Press, 2017 Nin Andrews’ newest collection, Miss August, provides further evidence that she is perhaps the most agile practitioner of prose poetry writing today. Written from the alternating perspective of three…
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“Entrapment” [by Terence Winch]
Terence Winch The people in the songs want out.They will not be your baby anymore.You cannot call them sweetheart.You must stop telling them howlovesick you are, how you can’t getby without them. How you…
