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Wanda Phipps: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Morning Poem #27 I should have stayed here with the beautiful strong cold Corinna Mae I should have stayed here all those years ago with the known and familiar I shouldn't have…
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National ‘Caveman’ Day: A Look Back at “The Boys Next Door” [by Joe Lehman]
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote that in a state of nature the life of man would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Unlike Rousseau, who felt that man in his natural state was…
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The End of Summer–Tutti Frutti Tarts [by Barbara Hamby]
Summer is ending, but the impulse to pile on the fruit is almost irresistible. For Labor Day I made a Lemon Mascarpone tart with a combination of plums, blueberries, raspberries, and cherries. Right away…
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RIP Stephen Dunn, 1939-2021 [by Howard Altmann]
Stephen Dunn passed away in June of this year. He was 82 and had suffered from Parkinson's. An exquisite and life-affirming Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, he took the ordinary and made it extraordinary. He moved…
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“The Two-Party System” [by Walter Carey]
The Republicans are likea drowning manwho pulls downhis rescuer thinkinghe's pulling him to safety and the Dems are likethe girl on the shorewho pulls downher boy-cut hipsterswhen no one's watching — Walter Carey
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“Bad Workshops” [by Alan Michael Parker]
In the Spring of 2013, I taught the worst undergraduate poetry workshop ever. The students were marvelous and curious and smart; the writing distinctive; the books were scintillating; the visiting poets I brought wow,…
