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Daniel Nester, Guest Author July 19-23
This week we welcome back Daniel Nester as our guest author. Daniel is the author most recently of Harsh Realm: My 1990s, a collection of poetry and prose poems coming soon from Indolent Books.…
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Jane Shore: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________________ God Mary, my baby sitter, once took me on a bus to her shabby boardinghouse in Jersey City where…
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The Solidity of Oceans [by Lera Auerbach]
Acrylic on Canvas by Lera Auerbach THE SOLIDITY OF OCEANS The ocean is still there where I left it. It will remain. It is solid (even though it’s not, but you know what…
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Stock Lineup [by David Lehman]
Stock Lineup for Charles North, inventor of the form Pepsi SS J. P. Morgan 2B Apple LF Microsoft CF Berkshire Hathaway C Johnson & Johnson IB Deere 3B * Crowdstrike RF DH Johnson & Johnson…
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Introducing poetry from Scotland: Thomas A. Clark [by Robyn Marsack]
The Homecoming the true south and the upland grassthe bright glade and the fallen lintelthe driving rain and the sudden calmthe fiddle tune and the rowan berriesthe ruined chapel and the black water the…
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Ishmael Reed on Tokenism
<<<On Tokens and Tokenism From George Washington to Jill Biden, Black literature has long been plagued by ignorant white patrons, who arbitrarily anoint a few writers as symbols of the Black experience BY ISHMAEL…
