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“God Made Me” [by David Lehman]
from The Yale Review: Poem of the Week God Made Me Returning from a walk across the Dug Road bridge and into the Ludlowville woods, Joe carried some violets we…
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Clare Banks: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________________________________ Playing in the Pastoral Dream My neighbor spent the summer destroying his yard. Lopping the tops of his trees, and razing the ground until it was no more than dirt, the roots…
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Vin Scully (1927-2022) Laureate of Play-by-Play Poetry [by David Lehman]
When Kirk Gibson hit perhaps the most unlikely home run in baseball history – when, hobbled with injuries, he pinch-hit with two out and a man on first base, and the Dodgers were one…
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Tom Cassani’s really big trick: Iterations of the small [By Tracy Danison]
“Iterations” by writer, performer and magician Tom Cassani. Photo © Camille Blake Forecast, Skills e.V. The other day I was trying to focus on Marion Zurbach‘s excellent Les Héritiers-x (“The Inheritors-x”) and one of the many…
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“Green Versus Orange” [by Joe Lehman]
A smart man who has entered middle age should remain on a never-ending quest of introspection and self-analysis. The literary parallel to life’s span is in Charles Dickens’s short tale “The Child’s Story.” An…
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Gerard Manley Hopkins — Great Poems of the World, episode 19, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
An odd duck and a great one! Spring and Fall to a young child (1880) Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts…
