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Who’s Who on A. R. Ammons’s “Shit List” [by David Barber]
David Barber from LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: 22 TAKES ON THE POETICS OF LISTS [1] AMMONS, A. R. [Broadside]: Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Privately Printed for…
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Old Nellie and the Big Spiders [by Mitch Sisskind]
Old Nellie and the Big Spiders After 4 July how quickly summer goes until Toward the end the big spiders come whom I love but more than love respect them for The web astonishments…
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A Man of Many Words, and Every One Mattered: Robert A. Gottlieb (1931-2023) [by Mindy Aloff]
Note: This is part two of a two-part essay on the late Robert Gottlieb (pictured left with his auithor Robert Caro). Part one appeared last Saturday July 1. Bob could read a booklength manuscript…
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Jim Whiteside: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________ Eighth Grade On Sundays we learn about the glorious mysteries. I picture God as…
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Untitled (The Hamburger Lounge) [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Hamburger Lounge? Yeats loved it there.Eliot, Crane, Whitman, Amy and Robert Lowell, When they wanted hamburgers, they knew where. The Golden Ox on Clybourn used to prepare A fine zwiebelfleisch, served with a roll; But the Hamburger…
