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Yoga on the beach: my prayers are ever blasphemies [by Tracy Danison]
Ne te fie aux apparences, pardner: the warming sun is a million miles off, the charming doohickeys jostling the surf are man traps from the last really big war and that man on sat…
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Part IV: Nibblers and Snow Cones [by Dean Smith]
Oriole starter Wade Miley took the loss Sunday against the Yankees. Since joining the O’s a few weeks ago, his name has been nibbling at the edges of my consciousness. I’d seen him pitch in…
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Save the Date: “Best American Poetry 2016” Launch Reading: Sept 22 at the New School in NYC
Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 For the fifteenth consecutive year, the New School Writing Program sponsors the launch…
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The American Scholar “Next Line, Please”: So sorry you didn’t win! Please try again.
The American Scholar's "Next Line, Please" contest continues apace, with David Lehman crafting a new challenge each week. Lehman's "fake apology" contest of August 23 was among the most popular in the contest's years-long…
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Part II: Home Run [by Dean Smith]
The Orioles took Wee Willie Keeler’s advice last night and “hit them where they aint.” Adam Jones lifted a seeing-eye RBI single to centerfield that broke a scoreless tie and four home runs took…
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For Labor Day: “The Fee” [poem by Bill Zavatsky]
Portrait of John Keats by Joseph Severn Dear Author: We are preparing the definitive, illus- trated catalogue of our international exhibition, “Urns Around the World” for publication. May we, The State Education Department of…
