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  • Go With the Groove [by Charise M. Hoge]

    January 19, 2018

    Dance is ephemeral while poetry has a chance to live on the page. But there are aspects of dance that I’d like to see happen in poetry––like gliding in and out of the wings…

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  • Quote of the Day: Coffee

    January 18, 2018

    This fun piece by Gabriela Gershenson reminded me of the following: "Coffee makes a sad man, cheerful; a languorous man, active; a cold man, warm; a warm man, glowing; a debilitated man, strong. It…

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  • Speaking in Simile [by Charise M. Hoge]

    January 18, 2018

    “It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way”––Christopher Morley Similes are the stuff of…yoga. In a given yoga…

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  • Choreography of emotion: Jann Gallois + 4 dance “Quintette” [by Paul Tracy Danison]

    January 17, 2018

      Jann Gallois’ choreography focuses on precision in the expression of movement.  Maria Fonseca, Jann Gallois, Erik Lobelius, Amaury Réot, Aure Wachter search synchrony (and synchronicity) in “Quintette”. Photo©2017Patrick Berger Seeing the premiere of…

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  • Next Line, Please: The Top Ten

    January 17, 2018

    Well, folks, we finally have it! The top ten poems of 2017, as voted upon by the contributors to Next Line, Please. No fear: all can be found with a little bit of scrolling! Angela…

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  • Our Sedentary Ways [by Charise M. Hoge]

    January 17, 2018

    We are civilized, and we take our seats––a lot. Many of us are compensating for all this sitting by working out. We task our bodies to exercise, all in the quest for balance and…

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