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New Year Poem by Philip Larkin
The short afternoon ends, and the year is over;Above trees at the end of the garden the sky is unchanged,An endless sky; and the wet streets, as ever,Between standing houses are empty and unchallenged.From…
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A Slightly Sad New Year’s Eve Story [by Alan Ziegler]
New Year’s Eve 1978 — I’m 31 and single. Harry Greenberg is in a similar (single-seater) boat. We decide to ignore New Year's Eve and go see a movie. Someone told us…
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Happy New Year!
© Leonard Freed – New Year’s Eve, Grand Central Station, NYC, 1969 "Salute" by A. R. Ammons May happiness pursue you, catch you often, and, should it lose you, be waiting ahead, making a…
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“Too Marvelous for Words” [as in “Dark Passage” with Bogart and Bacall]
I remember the first time I heard it. Jo Stafford sang it in Dark Passage, a late 1940s black-and-white movie in which you don’t see the face of the hero, a prison escapee who…
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“Diamond Sutra” [by Ed Ochester]
The reader says "this is my last poem but"–smiling–"it's twenty minutes long" then reads an epigraph from the Diamond Sutra saying life's one long series of illusions– which, like his poem, is boring too…
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A Real Mensch in Today’s WSJ: The Best (and Worst) Investments They Ever Made
Luminaries in Finance and Other Fields Reveal Their Greatest Hits—and Biggest Misses: Dana Gioia ZUMAPRESS Dana Gioia, professor of poetry and public culture, University of Southern California, and former chairman of the National Endowment…
