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Even Bad Books Have Their Charms [by David Lehman]
Even bad books have their charms. Last night I read such a bookthe title of which I shall not mentionnor will I name the book's authorwho thinks…
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Even Bad Books Have Their Charms [by David Lehman]
Even bad books have their charms. Last night I read such a bookthe title of which I shall not mentionnor will I name the book's authorwho thinks…
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Who Will Stop the Madman – A Gogol’s Prophecy [by Lera Auerbach]
My mother was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. As Hitler's army marched East in 1941, my grandparents abandoned all their possessions (including their beloved library and cherished collection of…
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“A Letter” [by David Shapiro]
A Letter It's three o’clock. The Mongolians should be asleep.Mayakovsky sleeps and Josef Brodskyused my book as a door stopa few minutes after I gave it to him.The Inner and Outer Mongolia sleep.And David…
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Mary Jo Salter Presents “The Death of Argos,” a Sonnet Sequence by Nicholas Pierce (Day 10)
Mary Jo Salter (photo right) concludes two weeks of presenting “The Death of Argos” by Nicholas Pierce. What new thing can be done with old forms like the sonnet? One answer comes from a…
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Eliot’s “Ass Wednesday” [by Mitch Sisskind]
As we move into Lent, Eliot's "Ass-Wednesday" is a work to which we naturally return. Is it surprising to discover the poet's inscription to Scott Fitzgerald "with the author's homage"? At first thought the…
