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“The Laughing Heart” [by Charles Bukowski]
your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods…
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Tales of the Sixties: My Father Delivers [by Alan Ziegler]
In 1966, my father buys an Arnold bread route in Astoria. Technically, he is self-employed—he owns the truck and the territory, and he buys the bread from Arnold then resells it to the…
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Come unto Dance, worshippers of true Spring: June Events 2022 [by Tracy Danison]
Evening in the dance quarter at the Cartoucherie arts complex, Bois de Vincennes, Paris. Photo © Patrick Berger HERE'S ANOTHER THING for the Paris dance-performance experience bucket list. It’s true I wrote hopefully about…
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Is Eliot Trending? [by Walter Carey]
Jeremy Sigler, whose latest book of poems is Goodbye Letter (in which, according to the publisher, the poet “plays out an endgame of muses to deconstruct his poetry and his will to write –…
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“Neti-Neti” [by Nina Kossman]
NETI NETI There once lived a woman who said only four syllables in her entire life, and those four syllables were "neti neti". When she was a child, and her parents wanted to buy…
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“And I will know each trembling of a leaf”: John Ashbery’s Translations from the French [by David Lehman]
Just as the sheer quantity of John Ashbery's literary criticism surprised even the poet's fans (see his Selected Prose, 2007), so too the poet's translations from the French: they fill two volumes, one devoted to prose, the other…
