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  • Puertorriqueño (Ray DeJesús)

    May 24, 2011

    The following post is dedicated to my grandmother Raquel "Quequi" Maldanado Rodriguez (1926-1994). Me haces falta, mami. Te amo.                         i) For the…

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  • Scenes from a Book Launch by Stacey Harwood

    May 23, 2011

    David Lehman (left) and Terence Winch Book sales were brisk at the Hanging Loose spring book launch party last week.  No surprise if you consider that the press was celebrating the release of new…

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  • Sic Transit Gloria by Terence Winch

    May 23, 2011

    Guy asks me for $1.80 on the subway.White guy, bald, shirt and tie.Says they towed his car with his wallet in it.He is sitting in front of me.  All the menin the car have…

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  • Jeff Bridges: A flash essay prefaced with a poem by Macgreogor Card with a dash of Fear and The Krays (Ray DeJesús)

    May 23, 2011

    THAT OLD WOOLLY BLOODLETTING by Macgregor Card In youth you tend to look rather frequently into a mirror, not at all necessarily from vanity. You say to yourself, “What an interesting face; I wonder…

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  • Didi Menendez’s Portrait Project

    May 22, 2011

    Didi Menendez's portrait project is designed for poets as well as visual artists. She has selected and posted photogaphic portraits to serve as models  Here are some of the particlars centerting on a Star…

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  • Brooklyn: Kissed and coldcocked (Ray DeJesús)

    May 22, 2011

    i. Is it Barcelona? Is it Brooklyn? Paris? No, Brooklyn, I'm sure of it. After all,for  37 years it's the city that's taken so much from me, but, simultaneously, givenme its heart and marrow.…

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