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The Old Grumpus Wumpus: V.S. Naipaul, 1932-2018 (by Mitch Sisskind)
They called him the old grumpus wumpusBut why? Why? Can you please explain thatTo me? Would you be so kind? Did I missSomething? I must have missed somethingBecause for the life of me I…
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Poems and Notes by John Tranter on Hitchcock (and Noir) on Hitch’s Birthday
<<<Hamlet does not utter the words North by Northwest (a compass direction that does not exist.). He does say "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a…
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Beethoven Bites Off the End of a Bottle – Daniel Brown
Beethoven was facing an especially tough compositional problem. He’d just brought off one of the most singular coups in music. The problem was how to repeat it. A little context: The third movement of…
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Daniel Brown, Guest Author August 13-17
This week we welcome Daniel Brown as our guest author. Daniel’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Raritan, PN Review, Parnassus, and other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies including Poetry 180 and The Swallow Anthology…
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Summer Reading: Jeanne McCulloch’s Debut Memoir “All Happy Families” [by Stacey Lehman]
Two days before Jeanne McCulloch was to marry, her father John suffered a massive stroke and lay in a coma from which he would not emerge. Patricia McCulloch, Jeanne's formidable mother, insisted that…
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A Tarot Reading for David Lehman [by Benebell Wen]
On January 30, the eve of a New Moon, housed in Aquarius, I read tarot for Best American Poetry’s very own David Lehman. The King of Swords was selected for his signifier card. In…
