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Marvelous Poets: Dante. . and more on Marvell [by David Lehman]
There is something cold and terrifying about Dante. Of the three books composing his "Divine Comedy," the most compelling has always been the "Inferno," which Dante envisioned in painstaking detail down to the last…
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From theater to performance: “Waiting for Godot” in Ivana Muller’s “Slowly, slowly … Until the sun comes up” [by Tracy Danison]
*Peter Woodthorpe asked Beckett one day what “Waiting for Godot” was really about: 'It's all symbiosis, Peter, it's symbiosis,' he said. Woodthorpe played Estragon in the first British production. - Wikipedia. Photo © Atelier de Paris…
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“Transit of Venus” by Marty Hiatt [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Marty Hiatt is a Berlin based poet and translator who runs the intrepid Baulk Press. Originally from Melbourne, Hiatt’s work keeps alive the correspondence between the experiments in French poetry of the late 19th…
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Pearl Harbor according to “The Godfather”
"Say, what do you think of the nerve of them Japs?" Sonny asks. "Dropping bombs on our own backyard on Pop's birthday here." To which Fredo, who didn't go to college to get stupid,…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 7, 2022
As the year draws to an end, I’m thinking of other kinds of endings. Victoria Redel's “Ode to Menopause” was first published in SWWIM on November 7, 2022. And Lucille Clifton’s poem “to my…
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Pendennis [by Lewis Saul]
Fifty years ago, your Editor, a few friends and I were drinking strong black coffee at a nice little café in the Montparnasse district of Paris. I was studying music composition and — frankly…
