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“When the Sun Tries to Go Off” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Hey, all you old timers! Remember when Kenneth Koch wrote "Sixty Plays" or whatever it was called? They were hilarious little premises, only one or two sentences long, plus a title — like, "An…
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“Marrickville” by Louise Carter [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
With the directness of paint-thinner, Louise Carter’s “Marrickville” strips away at the euphemisms and self-told fictions a young poet must decorate her life with to sustain her vocation. A share house is “a glorified…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 9, 2023
On July 25 Penguin released Terrance Hayes’s latest poetry book So to Speak. In it, he expands upon the American sonnet he so skillfully employed in American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin.…
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15 Years On: John Leonard, 1939-2008: Ambushed Into Sentience [by Ken Tucker]
John Leonard, who died Nov. 5 [2008] at age 69, was a dizzyingly inspirational critic. Lots of people are going to write appreciations of his extraordinary body of literary criticism, and although I am…
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Ben Sidran: Life’s a Lesson [by Lewis Saul]
BEN SIDRAN (1943- ) Life's a Lesson (1993) I first discovered Sidran when he was hosting a late-night program on VH1 called New Visions. It was amazing — he played the…
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“So, What’s it all about?” [By Joel Achenbach]
from the Washington Post / August 7, 1992 <<<Why do we love to use big words, such as "existential" and "metaphysical" and "deconstructionist," even though we have no idea what they mean? We never…
