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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Nine): Dobby Gibson [by Angela Ball]
Poem for an Antique Korean Fishing Bobber Little glass planet,I like picking you up.As if I’m holding my own thought,one blown molten with a puffof some craftsman’s breath⏤is it still inside you?You are a…
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Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928)Staatsoper BerlinDaniel Barenboim, cond.(4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing…
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“May Day” [by Nicholas Christopher]
The demented song of a womanforty four people in this citydie of the same disease Her voice rises and fallsbetween two notesup and down the scaletwo words unintelligible at first She is unseen invisible…
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On the First of May: “While you love your lover let / blue skies be your cover-let” [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
You can find on Youtube many terrific cover versions of Rogers and Hart's "Mountain Greenery," a song that made its debut in the 1926 "Garrick Gaities." I love Lee Wiley's take though she omits…
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Green Mountains Review and 950 Other Journals To Submit Your Work to Now [by Nin Andrews]
Last week I received an email from Poets & Writers with the title 950 Literary Magazines to Submit Your Work to Now. "950?" I asked Maggie, my cynical poet-friend. "Who reads all those journals?"…
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Squibs 499-502 [by Alan Ziegler]
499: In 1967, Leonard Cohen asked Judy Collins, “Why haven’t you ever written any of your own songs?" which, she said, "felt like he gave me permission to write.” She went home and wrote…
