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Madame Bovary 2 [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
If anyone ever needed Debtor's Anonymous it was Emma Bovary. She loved aqua lampshades and hosiery made of pink silk. Her husband was clueless re: The big A. Brazen cuckolds slept stress- free in…
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A Poetic Form Based on Your Phone Number [by Robert Schultz]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOV. 9, 2015 ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF A NEW POETIC FORM The Poertner . . . is a syllabic poem of 10 lines in three stanzas, in which the number of syllables…
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Thanks for the Shout-Out!
One of the most interesting things to watch as [David] Lehman's forewords fare forward thought a quarter of a century is the increasing recognition of the Internet as a valid site for publication. The…
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Alice in Wonderland 2 [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
There were things in Alice that would give Freudthe creeps. There were things in Caterpillar—like anal retention and a stellardenial—that made him the larvamost unlikely to cast aside angry flawsand thrive. Economists rarely divideand…
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David Lehman in the Wall Street Journal (11/6/15) on “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
One of Gustave Doré’s celebrated engravings illustrating the poem. PHOTO: ART RESOURCE The scariest great poem in the English language was written by a young genius of limitless potential who turned into an opium…
