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Elizabeth Bishop: The Birth Date as Synecdoche [by Mark Shulgasser]
Born on February 8, 1911, a hundred years ago last week, Elizabeth Bishop wrote about her sudden, sickening childhood identifications with the sky-permeating female scream, and the dizzying awareness of her unavoidable fate:…
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This just in . . . Emma Trelles’s “Tropicalia,” winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, now available!
"In Tropicalia, Emma Trelles gives us Miami–the flora, the fauna, the languages, the interstate. Her poems are luxurious and scrumptious, socially relevant, with oomph and sizzle. The buoyancy of her images and the poignancy of her direct language…
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The Wondrous Juxtapositions of Tom Clark
Tom Clark's blog continues to be an exemplum of ingenuity and a rich source of ideas, as you'll see if you check out his recent post on Kafka and progress — or this one…
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Auden’s Mirror Game
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…
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Bits and Bobs, Feb 14 – 20
WEST COAST: Sunday, February 20 – Jessica Piazza,Amanda Ackerman, Tisa Bryant read at Featherless #8. Reception to follow. 7:30 pm. Wordspace, 3131 Casitas Ave #156, Los Angeles, CA. Details here. — sdh
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The Hidden Ones (by Mitch Sisskind)
The Hidden Ones Charles Parker known as Yardbird For his love of chicken whether Fried or roasted sometimes performedOn a toy saxophone and occasionallyDozed off on the bandstand or failedTo show up altogether.…
