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  • Erin & Linda Reagan Update(s): Will Erin Date Again? [by Walter Carey]

    March 29, 2018

    Editor's note: Walter Carey writes: "David Huntley, my source for this story, is the pseudonym of an executive at CBS who asked that he or she not be named.  — WC." See our earlier dispatch of…

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  • Farewell Le Grande Orange [by Greg Pattenaude]

    March 29, 2018

    Today's opening day of the 2018 baseball season, usually a day of eternal optimism, had a shadow of melancholy with the passing of the great Rusty Staub.  Rusty is the only player to have…

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  • Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Lory Bedikian

    March 29, 2018

    Sestina, as my mother cooks by Lory Bedikian I tell her it’s a problem of the nerve.She doesn’t look up, but eases a scaron each small olive, making roomfor the marinade to soak in.…

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  • Jon Peede, Chair-elect of the NEH, with Good News

    March 28, 2018

    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]

    March 27, 2018

    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

    March 26, 2018

    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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