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“Visitation” by Tony Hoagland (1953-2018)
Now when I visit Ellen’s body in my memory,it is like visiting a cemetery. I lookat the chiseled, muscular bellyand at the perfect thirty-year old breastsand the fine blond purse of her pussyand I…
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Virginie Roux-Cassé (re-)discovers the sainted woman [By Tracy Danison]
Sainte Jeune Fille à la Licorne © Virginie Roux-Cassé Carnets pour l’exile: According to tradition, every exile needs to wander aimlessly from time to time, not so much to find a shard of home…
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“Thanksgiving” [by Terence Winch]
Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photosof trees, flowers, waterfalls, birdsuntil I just can’t stand it another second.I am not at one with nature. Never was.Some of the people can be fooled all…
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“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Great Poems of the World, episode 15, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a…
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Godwin’s Law [by Joe Lehman]
“As an online discussion or argument grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.” So says Godwin's Law, coined by author Mike Godwin. It's like "six degrees of separation" applied…
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“In Reprise: Next Line, Please” — 3 new prompts
<<< Last month, I announced the return of my “Next Line, Please,” column, which ran on The American Scholar's web site from May 2014 to September 2019. In that first reprise (read it here),…
