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“Shanked on the Red Bed” [by Susan Wheeler]
<<<The perch was on the roof, and the puck was in the air.The diffident were driving, and the daunted didn't care.When I came out to search for you the lauded hit the breezeOn detonated…
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Approaching All Art with Unchecked Enthusiasm: An Interview with Dante Di Stefano
I want to start this week of blogging with an interview, and a poem, by Dante Di Stephano, who is no stranger to the BAP blog. His new book, Ill Angels,is available from Etruscan Press.…
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Philip Brady, Guest Author July 15-19
This week we welcome Philip Brady as our guest author. Philip’s forthcoming book is The Elsewhere: Selected Poems and Poetics (Broadstone, 2020). His most recent book is a collection of essays, Phantom Signs: The…
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“Mandingo” (by Mitch Sisskind)
I'm doing a project of 100 monologues by imaginarystudents, faculty, administrators, donors, and staffat the University of Mississippi in 1957. After thisI will do a similar project set at Columbia Universityin 1967, and then…
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Why Poets Love Noir #2 [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
Name your favorite underrated noir movie? Suzanne Lummis: Night and the City (1950) is only a bit underrated by film noir enthusiasts, who grudgingly say it's Good; but I think it’s better than Good.…
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On Bastille Day, Vive la France: the Marseillaise as orchestrated by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Here's how the whole gang sang it in Paris on 14 Juillet 2016: And, of course, Paul Henreid is on hand to lead the regulars in a rousing rendition of this brilliant and bloody…
