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“Catullus #7 as her answer from Valley of Fire” [by Angela Brommel]
How many of my kisses would it take to satisfy you, you ask as your mouth grazes the back of my knee. As many as the grains of Mojave sand that lie between the…
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Karin Roffman on “The Top 10 John Ashbery Poems”
Karin Roffman, author of The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life, a book I warmly recommend, was asked to name the "ten best Ashbery poems," and she has made such a list, making it…
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Unto Others: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Filthy Labors by Lauren Marie Schmidt
Filthy LaborsLauren Marie SchmidtCurbstone Books, 2017 Lauren Marie Schmidt’s newest collection of poetry, Filthy Labors, roars with boundless defiant empathy on every page. For Schmidt, poetry is earned communion, restorative utterance, the expression of…
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The broad view from the “Bal perdu”: sudden transmogrification & Macron “à l’Elysée”
Metaphysical News: Reporter Jocaste L’Allemand caught this rare view of France’s Old Bones en marche for a future state, just minutes after Julie Gayet, a movie actress and the former “Chef d’état”’s inamorata, left a…
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“Redaction” [by Sean Speers]
I don't want to name drop butI saw a famous comedian on the street todayIt was Louis CK, on my way homefrom work. It’s strange, isn’t it, how we react to celebrity, dumband giddy…
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Shakespearean Take-Away (by Laura Orem)
As the New York Times recently reported, Delta and Bank of America have withdrawn their sponsorship of the Public Theater after pressure from those offended by the current production of Julius Caesar, whose title character…
