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“Zero” by Pia Aliperti
I am glad if I can type zeros Endre Tót Zeros of the world punch holes in the page.Put away chairs in an emptying auditorium.Make a space. When I…
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Will the Real Poet Please Stand Up? by Caroline Malone
My first impression of a poet came from listening to my mother and her friends talk about their attempts at being hipsters in high school. Apparently, my mother was not aware that the dark…
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Fly Me to the Moon!
Take a look at what Tom Devaney has artfully done with "OnandOnScreen," which is devoted to poets' pairing their work with a video of their choice. The current issue includes Catherine Wagner and Wayne…
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Jerry Kern, The song is you (who share this birthday with Mozart)
You and Mozart share this day. Happy birthday, Jerry (and you too, Wolfgang). I know you liked Frankie's version of this song cicra 1942. . . Just listent to that last falsetto note.
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On the consolations of (very) old age
From "Out the Window" by Donald Hall in the New Yorker, January 23, 2012:<<<[My mother] died a month short of ninety-one. Her brain was still good. A week before she died, she read "My…