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Johnny Cunningham Loved the Poetry of Blake and Burns — By Earle Hitchner (guest blogger during Oct. 23-29)
[NOTE: The freakish pre-winter snowstorm of this past weekend shut down the power, heat, and computer in my Hudson Valley home in New York, and caused me to relocate to precipitation-light southern New Jersey…
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Can’t miss reading: Daniel Nester and Michael Schiavo at the Zinc Bar, NYC
Sunday, November 6, 5:30pm Zinc Bar Poetry Series: Michael Schiavo and Daniel Nester. Zinc Bar, at 82 West 3rd Street, between Sullivan & Thompson, New York City, Greenwich Village. Subway: ACEBDF to West 4th street. NR to…
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“Because it is bitter and because it is my heart. . .”
It is Stephen Crane's birthday. In addition to "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Open Boat," and other superb prose, he wrote poems of terse irony, marvelous enigmatic parables set in bare ruined landscapes.…
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One-Season Wonders (by Laura Orem)
Back in the day, before the Internet and five million cable channels and YouTube and Netflix, television viewers were pretty much at the mercy of network programmers. Of which there were then three: ABC,…
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Ozu3 by Lewis Saul
Today: *36. Hitori musuko (The Only Son) (9/15/36) (87 min.) [Sound B&W] [buy it here]*37. Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (What Did the Lady Forget?) (3/3/37) (73 min.) [Sound B&W] [buy it here]*38. Todake no…
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Happy birthday, John Keats [by David Lehman]
Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. This is the equivalent of being dealt the Fool, the Lovers (inverted), and the Tower as the…
