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Three Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
Hold Onto Your Hat We learned how if the ship goes down you Can make a life-preserver of your shirt By taking it off and slamming it down onto The water with…
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The Last Word on Napoleon [by David Lehman]
The last word on Napoleon has not been written. More than 600,000 books have been published about the military genius who crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 and united the rest of Europe in…
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On Kenneth Koch, “Dr. Fun” [by Melanie Rehak]
"May I tell you how much I love your poems?" Frank O'Hara crowed in the first stanza of a tribute to his friend Kenneth Koch in 1953. "It's as if a great pipeline had…
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Said Disraeli to Gladstone. . .
At a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease." Disraeli replied, "That all depends, Sir, upon whether I…
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Flying Into the Unpredictable: Publishing During a Pandemic [by J. Chester Johnson]
(ed note: We checked in with J. Chester Johnson to find out how he's fared over the course of the last 18 plus months with the publication of his timely Damaged Heritage. Here's his…
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Greg McBride: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________ Sizes My sister found our father’s ring, turquoise faded, sullied silver-plate. It stopped my breath. Thirty years ago I…
