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“Methought I saw my late espoused saint” [by John Milton]
Sonnet 23: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband…
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On Coming to America [by Anne Lehman]
David and Anne Lehman In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, here is an excerpt from Anne Lehman's essay about escaping the Nazis and coming to America aboard the President Harding: It was a nightmare…
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“All the Things You Are”: The Greatest Love Song?
Fifteen years ago today, David proclaimed that Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" is the greatest of all love songs and Jill Alexander Essbaum asked why. David played a Sinatra cover from 1944…
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Aaron Smith: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Driving North on Interstate 99 the Poet Considers His Life at Forty I’ve pushed all my lovers into winter nights or fled them in 3 AM taxis, each city empty as…
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Shelley’ s “Ode to the West Wind” — Great Poems of the World, episode 18, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Ode to the West Wind By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819) I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an…
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The Dahlias [by Didi Jackson]
The Dahlias By now the fields are overgrown,most ironweed and parsnip have turned black,even the closed cabinet doors of milkweed podshave burst open, spilling their shucked silkinto the day. I wear a coatand remember…
