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Reflections on Sam Truitt’s Tokyoatoto [by Andrew McCarron]
I am concluding my week of blog entries on the poet’s notebook with some reflections on the poet Sam Truitt’s marvelous recent book, Tokyoatoto (Station Hill Press, 2020). This book-length poem was composed…
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“There’s No Place Like Home” [by James Thurber]
Idling through a London bookstore in the summer of 1937, I came upon a little book called `Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France.' Written especially to instruct the English how to speak French in the train,…
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Olympic Musings [by Walter Carey]
"You know what expression I hate the most?""What?""When they say she, quote, settled for silver.""That's why I say fuck 'em." — in support of which I refer you to today's New York Post reporting…
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Block-flute [by Lera Auerbach]
Marianna and I are at a summer retreat.I am five years old. I have a wooden recorderwith me, a block-flute. I blow out melodies. My parents left – they have some urgent matters.What…
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Bukowski Sonnet [by Mitch Sisskind]
When I ran into Charles Bukowski in A men's room at Santa Anita in 1980He joked that you should never bet onA horse that the guy at the next urinal Touts you on. We laughed about…
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The Poet’s Notebook: Interview with Carley Moore [by Andrew McCarron]
[Guest author note: Of all the contemporary poets and writers I know, few are as bracingly honest, funny, and heartfully transgressive as Carley Moore. In addition to being an NYU professor, and proud mother,…
