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“Their Lonely Betters” [by W. H. Auden]
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. A robin…
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An Interview with Tom Sleigh [by Nin Andrews]
NA: I just finished reading your book of poetry, House of Fact, House of Ruin, and your essay collection, The Land Between Two Rivers, and I am, quite simply, in awe. I don’t know…
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Calling all tattooed poets: Tattoosday Wants You! [by Stacey Lehman]
Poet Ryan Black photo (c) Bill Cohen Hard to believe but it's been 10 years since we have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets…
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Happy birthday to [alas the late] Keely Smith
Keely Smith and Louis Prima did it: the first time I ever heard "That Old Black Magic" was in a movie theater (the Loews) on 207th Street in a short between two feature films,…
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“Sex Elegy” [by Terence Winch]
My lovers have vanished. I used to have many. One moved to Boston and married a Japanese photographer. Another became a famous actress. Another one, who for a long timeI mistakenly believed to be…
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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Heart-Shaped Bruise, NYC, 1980, Nan Goldin The Body And Its Origins by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza I must have had a good reason to leave.Think back to the body and its origins.Dream of night…
