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It Might as well Be Spring [by DL]
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm, / I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string. . . Dick Haymes's version is my favorite, and Dennis Potter did great things with…
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J. D. McClatchy as Editor: “Uncensored Note to Auden” [by Jane Mayhall]
In a year of losses we lost a mainstay of the poetry scene yesterday when J. D. McClatchy (pictured at left, with James Merrill) succumbed after a long bout with cancer.…
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Emerson on “Compensation”
<<<And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems…
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Next Line Please: Neither Fugues Nor Feathers [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's poems were prompted by a list of given lines which were offered up by our master of ceremonies, David Lehman: — A good liar needs a first-rate memory.— This prophecy Merlin shall…
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“Algeria is beautiful like America”, a graphic novel by Olivia Burton, illustrated by Mahi Grand, has a grandeur all its own [by Tracy Danison]
Author Olivia Burton & illustrator Mahi Grand move Algeria’s beauty beyond wide open spaces The other day the charm of a poster beguiled me into visiting Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac…
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Moira Egan’s “Bar Napkin Sonnet #22”
(I want to fall in love, but not forever.Is that the truth, or am I still confusedwhere love’s concerned? Or am I simply usedto Solitary broken by Whoeverlooks interested or interesting? Neverquite thought…
