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Kenward Elmslie, 1929-2022 — Poet, Lyricist, Publisher
What I want to know is:When I'm dead and gone.Who'll prop me up in the dawn? — Kenward Elmslie Born on April 27, 1929, in New York City into a distinguished family—his grandfather was…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Fate Was In His Stars [by David Lehman]
At 3:15 in the morning, in London, England, one hundred and twenty-something years ago today, the great film director Alfred Hitchcock was born, a solid Leo with a macabre imagination (moon in Scorpio). When…
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Dante, Near and Far [by Robert P. Baird]
There is much strange in La Vita Nuova, the libello or “little book” that Dante composed fifteen or so years before starting in on the Divine Comedy. Take, for starters, the form of the…
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Under Fire [by Terence Winch]
Under Fire Stop looking at me. I didn’t do anythingwrong. I don’t know the words to the song.That’s all. I wandered around the mallwith my broken watch. I had all my receipts.But no one…
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slippage (un)fixed by Bridget Gilmartin [introduced by Thomas Moody]
Brigit Gilmartin achieves a lot within sixteen short lines. “Louis Buvelot is painting” is the kind of opening you’d expect from a Frank O’Hara poem: both casual and direct, and there is an easy…
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Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) [with Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singers, 1956]
This was high on the charts when I was eight and riding a bicycle to impress a little girl. I am still fond of the song. If you're hearing Emmanuel Chabrier's España (1883)you're not…
