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Catullus #25 (translated by Molly Arden: revised version)
Catullus # 25 (revised) Thallus, you lech: softer than fur of rabbit, down of goose, flap of ear, or sack of nuts and nest of cockdangling from your old man crotchwith cobwebs festooned, and…
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On Movies and Beauties (part two) by Mark Strand
It is hard to account for my infatuation with certain movie stars over the years. Whenever I try to recall Janet Blair, well, I can't. I can only remember something of the way I…
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“The Portable Pussy” [by Nin Andrews]
The Portable Pussy Wherever I go, I carry a pussy with me. How, you might ask, but I and the pussy are not one and the same being, so carry it I must. Asleep…
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The girls of VOGUE were once by Petty; now they are all by Giacometti . . .Dwight Ripley Travel Posters
The Esopus Gallery in Greenwich Village has launched of show of travel posters by artist, botanist, linguist, poet Dwight Ripley. (That's his witticism, above, about the changing curves of models.) As you can see…
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“I’m not really into poetry,” said Quentin Tarantino . . .
"But the movie made me think about taking a poetry class. One of the best things that can happen from a movie about an author is that you actually want to read their work." …
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William Waltz presents. . .a poem by Bob Hicok
My family and I made our annual trek to the Minnesota State Fair last week. As is our custom, we paid tribute to the grand sow and her litter, to king kohlrabi and his…
