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Lee Wiley, “Looking at You” (1939)
"Looking at you,I'm filled with the essence of,the quintessence of,joy. Looking at you, / I hear poets tellin' of lovely Helen of Troy." — Cole Porter, lyric writng at its most inspired The great…
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Serendipity (by Mitch Sisskind)
Gramps applies unguentine and a mixture of baking soda and super glue with desenexand cera-vu moisturizing lotion over lidocaine with benadryl vitamin e vitamin c zinc andwhat have you nothing works until by chance in a littleside…
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Edgar Allan Poe endorses Return to the Gold Standard [by David Lehman]
Ed Poe, long a proponent of the Bretton Woods monetary system, has come out in favor of a new gold-exchange standard. Congressman Poe (Republican, Texas) has introduced legislation that would return the nation to…
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“Band Practice” [by Terence Winch]
Band Practice We have three bottles on the kitchen table. One is filled with the music of a hundred old hornpipes in the key of D…
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Here comes the new “Hudson Review”
A magazine of historic importance, which published A. R. Ammons back in 1960. The Hudson Review, Autumn 2022 (Volume LXXV, No. 3 ESSAYS The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion Tess Lewis A Donne…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE
Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On was published yesterday. The book engages with the perilous now—the climate crisis, political cruelty, marginalization—while reaching back in time (the comfort women of…
