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How My Name Fell Off, or: What is a Bourbon Biscuit, or: The Internet is Lying to You [by Marty McConnell]
I don’t know how else to say this: The Internet is lying to you. Or to be more specific: The first Google search page is not the holy grail of accurate information. This week,…
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Tales of the Fifties (and Beyond): Baseball and Downpours [by Alan Ziegler]
In 1953, my father promises to take me to the Giants game at the Polo Grounds. There are two New York Giants teams, but if you just say Giants everyone knows you don’t…
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I Will Not Surrender to History, and Other Promises [by Marty McConnell]
Something I have been wondering: would I give up my whiteness to be Black? The answer is yes, but Walter Scott would still be dead. Would I give up my whiteness to be Black?…
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Let’s Assemble a Cento! [by David Lehman]
<<<< Starting this week, let’s assemble a cento. What’s that, you ask? It was “Wordsmith’s” word of the day on March 14, and you can read their write-up here, replete with links to a…
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AWP Highlight: Versal Journal at booth 536
A friend in the know says: "If you’re going to the AWP convention in Minneapolis and want to find out what North American poetry looks like from expatriate Europe, you might want to check…
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Jack Jones and the 1975 Chrysler New Yorker
Nothing brings back the 1975 World Series better than Jack Jones singing this adaptation of jazz standard "Talk of the Town" to sell Chrysler New Yorkers:
