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“How Little We Know” times two! [by David Lehman]
Here is one song of that title, words and music by Carolyn Leigh (nee Rosenthal), the lyricist on such Sinatra standards as "Young at Heart," "Witchcraft," and "The Best is Yet to Come" (the…
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i never told you how boring i thought you were [by Sara Di Blasi]
you smoked blue american spiritsand hid unfinished onesin between the jutting bricksof our houseso that the walls smelled tired you offered me a pulleven though i always said noit was part of your hospitalityhow…
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The Play-by-Play Poetry of Baseball [by David Lehman]
You remember when Kirk Gibson hit perhaps the most unlikely home run in baseball history. Hobbled with injuries, he pinch-hit with two out and a man on first base, and the Dodgers were one…
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Fragments 71-80 (from Selected Squibs) [by Alan Ziegler]
Overheard: “I admit to being abstract and I don't deny it, and I don't think it’s a bad position. On the other hand, I find you very academic.” The first student I connected with,…
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In Memory of John Hollander (1929-2013) [by David Lehman]
When John Hollander died, four years ago, I wrote, John Hollander died last weekend. He was two months shy of his 84th birthday and had been in poor health. We join the many who…
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Toward a Stranger Home I Home: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Adam Houle’s Stray
StrayAdam HouleLithic Press, 2017 Adam Houle’s Stray exhibits a technical virtuosity uncommon in a debut collection of poetry. Not only does he demonstrate a mastery of sonnet and couplet, but in poem after poem…
