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Two Poems (by Mitch Sisskind)
Explosion An explosion is always right because Gramps can't argue with an explosion.If he starts up at Thanksgiving dinner You and him might argue but he can'tArgue with an explosion you set off. Same thing as when…
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Introducing “Wednesdays with Denise”
Watch this space on Wednesdays for dispatches from Denise Duhamel. Denise’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Find out more about…
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Wednesdays with Denise [by Denise Duhamel]
For this ‘Wednesdays with Denise,” I point you in the direction of Gulf Stream, Florida International University’s national literary magazine for which I am a faculty advisor. Here’s a throwback to Ashley M. Jones (an…
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“Torrents of Spring” by Philip Mead [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
If T.S. Eliot had been writing in Australia, "The Waste Land" might have opened "September is the cruelest month". Spring has just arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and on the east coast of Australia…
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György Ligeti (1923-2006)
How many of you listen to "modern music" (i.e. Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage, Kurtág, Xenakis, etc.) for sheer pleasure? I've been into this stuff since very early childhood so it's just as pleasurable for me…
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The Proud Beggar [by Tom Disch]
Am I happy to have livedWhen and where I didAmerica The 20th centuryI've often said soGrateful anyhow for my good luckBut I'll be happier soonTo have shed both when and whereMy landlord has had…
