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“Pet” by Kate Lilley [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Kate Lilley has published three books of poetry, including Versary (2002), winner of the Grace Levin Prize, and the acclaimed Lady Like (2012). Her most recent collection Tilt won the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary…
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John Donne’s “Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Eve”
‘TIS the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s,Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ;The sun is spent, and now his flasksSend forth light squibs, no constant rays ;The world’s whole sap is sunk…
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Dmitri Shostakovich: The Nose, Op. 15 (1927-28) [by Lewis Saul]
The Nose, Op. 15 (1927-28)Royal Opera HouseOrchestra of the Royal Opera HouseIngo Meszmacher, cond.(2:13:27) The 22-year-old wrote his first opera (although he began others, the only other satisfactorily complete one is Lady Macbeth…
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Don’t Bury the Lede [by Walter Carey]
In the current Atlantic,the time-waster who got the coveted assignmentto write about "The Waste Land"on the poem's one hundreth birthdaybegins with these three questions:"Why is April the cruellest month?Why did the chicken cross the road?Why…
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On Seeing the Nutcracker Suite as an Adult [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Several years ago, a colleague who was leaving NYC for L.A., asked me what should be on her “bucket list” of things to do before heading west. “See a performance of the New York…
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Paul Tran: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Lipstick Elegy I climb down to the beach facing the Pacific. Torrents of rain shirr the sand. On the…
