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  • “The Joker Is Wild”: original trailer

    March 22, 2018

      plus Jimmy Durante brought to you by Colgate Palmolive

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  • Next Line Please: From Beethoven to the Abyss, with Love and an Unpacked Suitcase [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    March 21, 2018

    On this week's installment of Next Line, Please, contributors were tasked with writing poems with lines quoted from participants' submissions in the previous week: “He’d rather be listening to Beethoven”—Patricia Wallace“will one day pack…

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  • Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Sandra McPherson

    March 21, 2018

    In Her Image by Sandra McPherson                          French postcard, circa World War I In agreeing to be the crucified woman,she knew she would…

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  • Wings Knitted from Thin Ribbons of Wind: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Faisal Mohyuddin’s The Riddle of Longing

    March 19, 2018

    The Riddle of LongingFaisal MohyuddinBackbone Press, 2017 The Riddle of Longing, Faisal Mohyuddin’s ecstatic, brimming, debut chapbook begins with the lines: “We have always been the displaced children of displaced children, / tethered by…

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  • Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Jennifer Elise Foerster

    March 18, 2018

    From the Lake No. 1, 1924, oil on canvas, Georgia O'Keeffe Refrain by Jennifer Elise Foerster  There is a woman who whistlesfrom the arroyo—oh hollow boneyou have a body you cannot carry alone. What I…

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  • Introducing “Next Line, Please” a masterclass in writing in form and collaborative composition.

    March 16, 2018

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