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Oh Frabjous Day! [ by Charles Coe ]
I was walking downtown Boston in a post-apocalypse (umm…I mean "post-election") funk and passed a couple of scruffy-looking young white guys in Red Sox gear standing in front of…
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The Jumblies after Edward Lear (by Nin Andrews)
Forgive the political nature of this comic–I like to think of this blog as a sacred space where we all breathe more easily. But all week I have been thinking of this Edward Lear poem.…
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“Leonard Cohen’s Psalms” (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
King David was Leonard Cohen’s most influential artistic ancestor. As the supposed author of the Book of Psalms, David wrote poetry that was meant to be sung. And not just any poetry, but poetry…
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In memoriam: Paris, November 13th, 2015
When intimate strangers, those who were in but not of our lives, disappear, no understudy gets patched in to the piece. Neither players nor spectators pay much attention, but their absence – an absence…
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Pain doesn’t hurt. Fear does: an interview with poet Gustavo Barrera Calderón [by Kathleen Heil]
Gustavo Barrera Calderón. Dear Readers, As many of us process the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election with anger and sadness, I hope that Gustavo Barrera Calderón's words might be a small source of light…
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El dolor no duele, el miedo sí: una entrevista con el poeta Gustavo Barrera Calderón [por Kathleen Heil]
Gustavo Barrera Calderón (Santiago de Chile, 1975) ha publicado ocho libros de poemas y ha recibido el apoyo de becas de la Fundación Neruda, entre otras. Actualmente traduzco su novela en verso Cuerpo perforado…
