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The Divine Oscar on San Francisco
Everyone knows what Mark Twain said about a San Francisco summer, but Oscar Wilde's observation is equally valid: "It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Lauren Kizi-Ann Alleyne
On the day of your favorite color: Here is the day of pumpkins, their hollow heads lit and leering. Here is the stripped sweetness of candy corn cupped in my hands. Here is fall…
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The Guessing Game (V)
So you think you know poetry! This fellow is (was) 1) Robert Lowell2) James Russell Lowell3) Wallace Stevens4) The author of The Auroras of Autumn5) A Hartford insurance executive If you were a fan…
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A More Whimsical Note [by Eleanor Goodman]
My first summer in Shanghai, I horrified my female Shanghainese coworkers by daring to walk around outside. It wasn’t that they were worried that I would suffer from heatstroke in the humid 95-degree weather,…
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The Delacroix Quiz [by David Shapiro]
A Test for David Lehman's Fan Club (and Delacroix's) (Answers coming up in a few days) Winner gets free colour collage by DJS! l. What great violinist did Delacroix paint 2. What tubercular…
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Consider the Lobster and the Marinating Cat [by Eleanor Goodman]
My hometown, Buffalo, NY, isn’t famous for much. We’ve got Buffalo chicken wings and the ill-fated Buffalo Bills. There’s SUNY Buffalo and Lake Erie and the faded glory of the Erie Canal. But mostly,…
