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Ten Autobiographical Fragments [by Alan Ziegler]
One Plus One (1956): When one of the older kids in the neighborhood is told he “has no balls,” he replies, “I’ve got two of them, how many do you have?” This is a question…
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“Night on the Town” [by Billy Collins]
Night on the Town There will never be another you, softly crooned the singing star, and there will never be another me, muttered the poet alone at the bar.
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From “Just a Couple of Mugs” [by David Lehman]
From The Common, this section of "Just a Couple of Mugs," a five-part prose poem from David Lehman's new book The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir (Cornell University…
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Adam Zagajewski Memorial (for Polish reaaders residing in Berlin)
Tadeusz Dąbrowski na spotkaniu poświęconym Adamowi Zagajewskiemu W nieco ponad rok od śmierci Adama Zagajewskiego w monachijskiej Kunsthalle odbędzie się spotkanie z pisarzami, który jako twórcy i jako ludzie wiele mu zawdzięczają. O poezji i…
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An Féar Gorta [Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An Féar Gorta If I ever go back home again, we will drive through the countryside just as it is getting dark. We will gather together in the town’s only hotel, eating,…
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Marie Desoubeaux has a knack for conjuring music and teasing movement [by Tracy Danison]
Sound from music. From sax to rain. “Après tout”, Marie Desoubeaux. Photo © Mireille Huguet My downstairs neighbor, who is of a thrifty persuasion, very often makes his little sprites oatmeal for breakfast –…
