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Shelley’s “Ozymandias” on “Mad Men”
The surprising thing about the line from Shelley's sonnet quoted on tonight's episode ("Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!") is not that Mr. Ginsberg knows the poem but that art director Stan,…
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“The Rape of Persephone” [by Justine Bienkowski]
Before I even cut you open, IImagine stripping you, revealing chastePersephone: a gleam of white, a sighOf scarlet beads, of blood. Beware! Make haste,For Hades rides to watch her suckle seeds.It must be virgin…
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NOTEBOOK: INNUENDI (by Anthony Madrid)
1. I have this idea for a new kind of review. Call it a “gallery” review. Just a long list of quotations, individual lines mostly. Maybe a few two-fers and three-fers. At any rate:…
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Anthony Madrid, Guest Blogger May 13-19
This week we welcome Anthony Madrid as our guest blogger. Anthony lives in Chicago. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS. His…
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Homage to Joe Brainard [by Jacques Bernard]
Nancy Diptych At the New School's Tishman Auditorium on Tuesday, May 8, writers who knew and loved Joe Brainard (1941-1994) read from the Library of America's new edition of the artist's collected literary works.…
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Your Financial IQ [or, Finance for Poets, Part VI]
We asked our broker friend Eric Rice to devise a shortcut list of sample questions that would determine your financial intelligence quotient. It is Eric's belief — and one we share — that any…
