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It’s been awhile…
…since I've posted any puns. "Are y'all havin' any symptims of depruvation?" Jill asked, concerning withdrawal. Ok. That was bad. Real, real bad. As are the following, unapologetically harebrained Tom Swifties. The Tom…
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British Poets, Day Five: The Fabulists [by Todd Swift]
Yesterday and today the world experienced the Chilean miracle at Camp Hope, where thirty-three miners were rescued after months of doubt and darkness – a time they survived with optimism, creativity, and inspiring communitarian…
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British Poets, Day Two: Three Unexpected (?) Figures [by Todd Swift]
On my second day here, I want to extend the range of poets I wish to share with you, by offering three poems by three poets, who, each, in different ways, broaden the mainstream…
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Wise Words from VW (by Laura Orem)
from "On Being Ill" by Virginia Woolf: We need the poets to imagine for us…Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts.We cannot command all our faculties and keep our…
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Monday @ KGB: Mahogany Browne and Thomas Sayers Ellis
Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar co-sponsors a reading with Cave Canem. Featuring . . . Mahogany L. Browne is the author of several books, including her latest collection of poems Swag, and the…
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Brian Clements Presents One More Poem by Morton Marcus
Navel 1. Button sewn to our skin, the thread bitten off by the eternal seamstress, the darner of celestial socks. Sewn to our chests that way, you would think it holds body and…
