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Poets, Law and Order, and Criminal Intent
An interoffice exchange from July 2009 WTF!!?! L&OCI Hey, what does Law and Order Criminal Intent have against poets? In last night's episode, "Passion," an arrogant poet/editor pimps out his young attractive assistants to…
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Love Most of You Too by Dustin Brookshire [by Nin Andrews]
I have a particular weakness for what I call gossip poems–poems that make me feel as if I’m eavesdropping on a juicy conversation. They remind me of my father, a talented gossip, though he…
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Paris: Waiting on (May &) June Events [by our Paris correspondent]
“People United”, Joanne Leighton. Photo: Patrick Berger 2021 Children, behave!/That’s what they say when we’re together!/ And watch how you play!/They don’t understand/ And so we’re runnin’ just as fast as we can/ holdin’…
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Introducing Thomas Moody, Australian Bureau Chief
This week we welcome Thomas Moody as chief of our bureau in Australia. Thomas's poetry and prose have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Los Angeles Review, Hanging Loose, Lindsay Magazine and elsewhere. He is rarely…
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An Introduction to Toby Fitch: & ici an aussi trysting the rules (Part 1) [by Thomas Moody]
“Without paranoia, there’s nothing. My knowledge of homeland trivia is nothing if not chaotic, historically inaccurate…" Toby Fitch works in the great tradition of Australian (post-/modernist) poetry that takes play seriously…
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A poem from The Awl by Matthew Zapruder [posted by Mark Bibbins]
I love the way this poem captures the sad, sweet, isolated longing of adolescence. The tension created by the interplay of short lines and sneakily unruly syntax seems to mirror the experience of tentatively…
