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Some cinematic suggestions [by David Lehman]
For The American Scholar, I've posted short essays on the movies I've listed here. Here are links to, and brief excerpts from, the articles. To this post, which first appeared on March 27, 2020,…
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from “Julius Jaffe: The Analects” [by Mitch Sisskind]
OLD SONGJulius Jaffe sang an old song:'Boys, boys, too much noise!Abie! Louie! Kum in hoyz!' CONCUPISCENCEJulius Jaffe said, "In Torah, the Land of Egypt is a metaphor for concupiscence." THE GODFATHER PART IIIMorrie Brier…
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Squibs 397-403 [by Alan Ziegler]
397: When I was a kid, sometimes I’d look down as I walked and imagine I was flying. Everything on the ground became magnified in its smallness—rivulets of rain water in the gutter became mighty…
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Nickole Brown’s The Donkey Elegies
[A Review by Dante Di Stefano] The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in PoemsNickole BrownSibling Rivalry Press, 2020 Nickole Brown’s new chapbook, The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems, continues the project she initiated in…
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An English “Plague Poem” [by Martin Stannard]
NOW My going is soft –But it feels heavy in places – A finch –Perhaps a chaff –Pops by to grace the day – Separation is a way of lifeFor some people I see…
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A Dispatch from “Journal of the Plague Year”: The Black Swan [by David Lehman]
I write in self-imposed isolation. The Corona virus that originated in Wuhan, China, and is spreading with the speed of a medieval plague, has mandated “social distancing,” a phrase now commonplace. In Wall Street…
