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The New York School Diaspora (Part Twenty-Two): Jianqing Zheng [by Angela Ball]
Birds of Passage We roll out of bed before sunrise, put the two pull bags in the trunk, crank up the engine, and back the car out of the driveway; we have a two-hour…
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“Other News on Page 234” [by Herbert Gold]
Someone famous will die that day,My day,And the newspaper will report:“More obituaries on page 24.” For the curiosity of some,the regret of several,and the grief of a few. Those few, they matter,So they have…
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From “The hounding of author Kate Clanchy. . .” [by Sonia Sodha in The Guardian, Jan. 23, 2022]
From “The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy” by Sonia Sodha in The Guardian (January 23, 2022) A few years ago, when I was still getting to grips with…
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Dan Gutstein: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________ The Fox Who Loves Me + Other Developments in the Faunal and Floral Kingdoms Deep, deep in the shrubberies: behold the beaver. Being…
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On Balanchine’s Birthday (January 22,1904)
George Balanchine (1904-1983) is tremendously quotable – if only because so many of his bon mots are adapted from others. When he declared himself to be “not a man but a cloud in trousers,” for…
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“Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters” [new poems by Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung]
"At the start of the pandemic, I wrote nine lines (three tercets) and asked Laren to write a response in three tercets. This back and forth correspondence has continued as an improvisation throughout this…
