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  • Variation on Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

    December 30, 2013

    (c) Jane Lee & Geronimo DeOcampo Desumala III

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  • A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poetry (Week 13)

    December 29, 2013

                      Bad Habits                                 I take the hap                           of all my deeds.                            George Meredith Modern Love XX          2.50 what? The night's at kickback stage.And if I'm the man…

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  • Amy Glynn, Guest Author December 30-January 1

    December 29, 2013

    This week we welcome Amy Glynn as our guest author. Amy's work appears widely in journals and anthologies (including The Best American Poetry 2010 and 2012). Her book A Modern Herbal was released by Measure…

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  • Old Friends by Jennifer L. Knox

    December 27, 2013

    (Ed note: Laurence Goldstein's posts this week about encounter poems reminded me of this poem by one of my favorite poets. What do you think? Do you have a favorite "encounter" poem? — sdh)…

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  • Hardball. Not Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    December 26, 2013

    Fancy Dog, here for no reason.     Dear Bleaders, I find it hard to believe that, down that long road, *nobody* said it would be easy. I think someone’s given me a hard…

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  • The Encounter Poem Part IV by Laurence Goldstein

    December 26, 2013

    (Ed. note: This is a continuation of Laurence Goldstein's essay about the encounter poem. Find part one here, part II here, and part III here.) Nastassja Kinski in Roman Polanski's film Tess (1979)     In…

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