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“Fe” by Sarah Day [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Sarah Day is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Tempo (2013) shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, The Ship (2004) winner of the Judith Wright Calanthe Queensland Premier’s Award for Poetry…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 1, 2023
Patricia Smith’s latest poetry book Unshuttered was published on Feb 15. Starting twenty years ago at a Connecticut flea market, Smith collected more than 200 photographs of African Americans, each image between 120 and…
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Lally and Winch at KGB Bar Last Night (When We Were Young) [“Poets’ Photos” by Star Black; report from Julia Cohen]
Terence Winch and Michael Lally read at KGB Bar last night when all of us were fifteen years younger. Star Black took their photographs. Julia Cohen's filed this report: <<<On Monday nights, sometimes I…
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Cri de Coeur [by Jim Cummins]
Oy vey, my country! I would sob if it weren't such … an American crisis: goofy, headstrong, distracted, with a bunch of old men in dark suits running around looking for their mommies. And…
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Who Will Stop the Mad Man? [by Lera Auerbach]
My mother was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. As Hitler's army marched East in 1941, my grandparents abandoned all their possessions (including their beloved library and cherished collection of…
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want [by Lewis Saul]
Fanny Robbins We addressed my maternal grandmother's sisters as Tante (tan'-ta), from the old country … Tante Fanny was a towering figure. After her husband's death, she took over his business — a wholesale…
