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Jazz at Noon: The Closing Chords
<<Leslie Lieber wants to make it clear: His age is not the issue. He turned 99 in March, and he quit playing golf last year, and maybe he takes a moment longer to step…
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A Wild Ride Indeed…
How can we understand the astounding story of M. Dominique Strauss-Kahn? Is there a literary algorithm that can be applied? Oui! The character of Mr. Toad…
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Bits and Bobs . . . upcoming events
Friday, May 20, Terence Winch and Hanging Loose Press spring book launch Poets House, 6-8 PM Battery Park City, NYC 10 River Terrace. Details here. Tuesday, May 24, David Lehman presentation about A Fine…
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David Lehman is Baltimore Bound for A Fine Romance
In connection with his award winning A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters American Songs, David Lehman will make a presentation at the Eldersburg Branch of the Baltimore Public Library. A traveling exhibit based on the…
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Love Letter Fingered in French for my Guests [by Molly Arden]
Molly is barely under her own dress today. The teeth in her mouth biting air, the teeth in her zipper biting hair. Twisted tired. Too much time in the tub tonight. Maybe it was…
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“Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor” by Terence Winch [by David Lehman]
Terence Winch's new book, Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor (Hanging Loose Press), his best to date, expresses the poet's defiant resistance to the forces of intellectual conformism — it…