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The Course of a Particular [by Wallace Stevens]
Wallace Stevens (1952) The Course of a Particular Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind,Yet the nothingness of winter becomes a little less.It is still full of icy shades and shapen…
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“The People of Yesteryear” [by Loren Goodman]
The People of Yesteryear The people of yesteryear were quiteRemarkable. Alexander the Great, forExample, I was surprised to see, hadNo arms, only one leg, and no head! Neither Dionysus nor AphroditeHad noses; though they…
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Met Percent: Week Twenty-Five [by Alec Bernstein]
Drauen and Preindre Inset: Phone, for Life Magazine, Anonymous, 1965.Center: Design for a Desk with Decorations from A Midsummer Night's Dream, G. Clark Stanton, 1851. It would be impossible to estimate, wandering around the…
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“The Singles Scene” [by Ernest Hilbert]
The Singles Scene As a girl, she had an odd assortmentOf dolls, all missing their partners and mates:Cher with no Sonny, two Charlie’s Angels.Her strange daydreams all centered on absentFriends, a Ken doll, spiffed…
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Ron Padgett: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Ron Padgett by Siobhán Padgett, 2020 ________________________________________________________________________ Morning …
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Your Assignments for Next Week [by Mindy Aloff]
In Ezra Pound’s 1934 ABC of Reading, Pound cautions: “Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.” In a posting on Twitter, analyze why…
