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Jon Peede, Chair-elect of the NEH, with Good News
Jon Peede, who is chair-elect of the National Endowment for the Humanities, after having served as senior deputy chairman, shares the excellent news: <<< Congress Increases Budget for N.E.H. and N.E.A. Despite Trump’s Agenda Congress…
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Next Line, Please: The Hedgehogs and the Foxes [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week, the illustrious leader of the poetry free-for-all tasked the writers of Next Line, Please with a prompt inspired by the challenging game of chess. He proposed that they write poems inspired by the…
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Catullus # 25 translated by Molly Arden
Thallus, you letch: softer than rabbit fur, goose down, ear flapis your phallus and sack of nutsthat dangle from your old man crotch, festoonedwith cobwebs, and still you’re as greedy as a gonif[line missing…
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Why would the English love to live in ancient Greece? [by Virginia Woolf]
<<< It is the climate [in England] that is impossible. If we try to think of Sophocles here, we must annihilate the smoke and the damp and the thick wet mists. We must sharpen…
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Labyrinth for Solo Piano [by Lera Auerbach]
Labyrinth for Solo PianoInspired by The Book of Imaginary Beings and other writings by J. L. Borges Tomorrow evening, March 27, 2018, I will premiere Labyrinth, a large work for solo…
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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Iliana Rocha
Looking at Women by Iliana Rocha My father taught me how. His curious eyes, perpetually amber from drinking, would scan a woman, rest on a bold curve they liked: tits or ass. He was not…
