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  • Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 1 — Bill Manhire’s ‘Hotel Emergencies’

    June 22, 2014

    2008 (c) Ed Swinden Hotel Emergencies The fire alarm sound: is given as a howling sound. Do        not use the lifts. The optimism sound: is given as the        sound…

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  • Introducing the Poets of New Zealand

    June 22, 2014

    Photograph (c) Jason O'Hara Beginning this week, Gregory O'Brien will be curating a weekly series featuring poets of New Zealand. Poet, essayist, artist and curator Gregory O'Brien was born in Matamata, New Zealand, in…

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  • The Presence/Absence of Jewish Culture in Catalunya, Aphorisms of Jose Bergamin [by Sharon Dolin]

    June 22, 2014

    Ancient mikveh in Girona This will be my last post from Barcelona. I had wanted to translate something else. Or to speak about the shadow of Judaism that shows itself in unexpected places. Such…

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  • Boys of Summer: Frank flanked by Steve Yeager and Tom Lasorda after a Dodger win

    June 21, 2014

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  • “Love After Auden” [by Greg Griffith]

    June 21, 2014

    Given the dictumThat we must love one another Or die,We die. — Greg Griffith

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  • Alan Ziegler, Guest Author June 23-27

    June 21, 2014

    Alan Ziegler is the editor of Short: An International Anthology of 500 Years of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms (Persea Books); his other  books include Love At First…

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