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Blondes, Box Scores, and Elizabeth Bishop [by Allison Contey]
1. A-Rod, your body rocksas does your batbut not so much, perhaps,your plucked eyebrows or TV teeth, and—is your hair frosted?It's OK because when you're at the plate,you look like a Cavalier—maybe more a…
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Next Line, Please: Starting with the End [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Starting with the end seems to solve a few problems that naturally occur when trying to write a poem. It means you don’t have to stare at a blank page (what Mallarmé called “the…
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The Warden of Dover Beach [by Philip Brady]
For me, this is the end of an era. Of course, junior geezers like me know lots of era ends, and this is not the last, but perhaps (cue violin) the penultimate. Since 2007,…
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Kith and Kin [by Philip Brady]
This is a whimsical piece about the ways that social media shapes identity. It's from Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City. Kith & Kin I hit my head. Whacked it good. I was parked…
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Poetry: For and Against (and a behind the scenes look at editing!) [by Philip Brady]
H.L Hix's new book, Demonstrategy: Poetry: For and Against sheds new light on poetry's place in the world, bringing philosophical, political, economic, "ethopoetic," cultural, historical, and psychological models to a broad and fascinating discussion. Here's a…
