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“May Day” [by Nicholas Christopher]
The demented song of a womanon the street the day one hundredforty four people in this citydie of the same disease Her voice rises and fallsbetween two notesup and down the scaletwo words unintelligible…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Sheila Maldonado
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ copy rong, a video poem by Sheila Maldonado ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Sheila Maldonado is the author of the poetry collections one-bedroom solo (A Gathering of the Tribes / Fly by Night Press, 2011) and that's what you…
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Epitaph for a Genre: On Kubrick’s “The Killing” [by David Lehman]
Adapted by Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson from the pulp novel by Lionel White, The Killing is classic noir. The plot is about an expertly planned racetrack heist that goes spectacularly wrong because the weak link…
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“Emissary” [by Andrea Applebee]
After filling a heel of bread with stale anger And tossing it off the ledge into rosemary, the rosemary appeared on a plate of hot crust the next day and the night moon over…
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Lally on Winch
Plunging through my closeted archives, I came across copies of The Poetry Project Newsletter. A piece by Michael Lally on Terrence Winch caught my attention. A few hours later in real time (but 43…
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Connecticut Welcomes You!
David Lehman, Governor Ned Lamont's top economic-development official, weighs in on the lure of the nutmeg state to New Yorkers looking to exit the city. Some NY transplants are here just for the crisis,…
