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Pick of the Week (from “Urban Renewal: xxvi. Washington Square”) [by Major Jackson]
When all that cautions the eyes toward the imminentslide of autumn to arctic winds, the canopy of English elmand sycamore leaves like colored coins fall and widena hole letting more light spill in, heaven’s…
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Odd Man Out: “the best thing James Mason has ever done, and the best film he’s ever been in”
British director Carol Reed turned out three masterpieces in the late 1940s. With an exemplary performance from Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol (1948) does justice to Graham Greene’s brilliant story “The Basement Room.” The Third Man (1949), the…
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“The Elevated Train” [by Edward Hirsch]
Yesterday I climbed the stairs and took the “L” to 1965 where I was stuck in the heart of downtown Chicago waiting for my grandmother to…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Raina J. León
Art by Raffaele Monchiero León, age 23 months suspect by Raina J. León in the isolation room, there are dirt spots on the floor. in laboring, as the contraction waves rise to peak pain…
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“Late November Afternoon, Hazman’s Field” [by Karl Elder]
“Who is the third who walks always beside you?”– TS Eliot, "What the Thunder Said" A man in gray overallssteps out of the gray matter of the horizon.Snow whirs above the stalkslike angels of…
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Squibs 423-444: My Activism Lustrum [by Alan Ziegler]
423: In the early 60s, protesters march to “ban the bomb”; the bomb is banned (partially) with the 1963 Test Ban Treaty. Protesters march, sit-in, and are beaten in pursuit of equal rights; discrimination…
