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Stephen Crane: American Poet (by Jenny Factor)
Today is the opening day for millions of baseball fans–including me. (This poet cheers for the Dodgers.) Another fan of baseball, Stephen Crane (b. 1891 in New York, and shown above as a Syracuse…
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“This live, throbbing age . . . ” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If there's room for poets in this world . . . Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's – this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,…
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Beach Weather & Beware (by Jenny Factor)
On April 16, we mark the 53rd anniversary of the publication of William Strunk Jr. and E.B.White’s The Elements of Style–truly the classiest of forays into the nays and naughts, and ayes and oughts…
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Over and Under by John Brehm
So sexy to slide under- neath a river, to sit inside this snakelike sub- marine-like subway car and freely imagine the world above— the Brooklyn Bridge invisibly trembling with the weight of its …
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Dream Pairing: Gabriella Gershenson and Phillip Lopate Read Together April 9, 7:00 pm (Lolita, 266 Broome St. NYC) by Stacey Harwood
A confession: I wrote my first-ever fan letter to Phillip Lopate, upon reading his essay "Chekhov for Children" from the collection Against Joie de Vivre (Simon &…
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Jackie Kennedy and Johnny Mercer [by David Lehman]
Usually I recoil from snarky letters to the editor pointing out errors in an article, although sometimes the unseemly back-and-forth between bitchy intellectuals in the back pages of the NY Review of Books is…
