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David Trinidad: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
David Trinidad and his mother Joyce, graduation from junior high school, 1968. _______________________________________________________________________________ Sonnet The day she died, my mother divided up her jewelry, placed each piece in Dixie cups (on which my father…
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“On This Very Street in Belgrade” [by Charles Simic, born today]
On This Very Street in Belgrade Your mother carried youOut of the smoking ruins of a buildingAnd set you down on this sidewalkLike a doll bundled in burnt rags,Where you now stood years laterTalking…
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Sweet Tooth [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach I walkedaround the housein searchof chocolate.(There must besome chocolatesomewhere, right?) No, I don’t thinkit’s a sweet toothcraving,I just havean excessof dissonancestoday. Chocolate makesdissonancesresolve. (Or it doesn’t.) Regardless,somehow,you feelbetter.…
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Two Poems (by Mitch Sisskind)
Die Verwandlung So sick and tired of waking up Every morning as myself again! Oh let me awaken tomorrow as Kafka's beetle struggling…
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On Freud’s birthday, the definitive “what do women want?” [by David Lehman]
Freud’s Immortal Question Or, one student’s adventures in higher yearning By David Lehman May 6, 2018 To: Colleagues in the Writing Module From: Jack Hexter Many of you who have worked with Richard Treacy will be…
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Jacques d’Amboise, dancer (28 July 1934 – 2 May 2021) by Mindy Aloff
Jacques d'Amboise during a curtain call following his variation in Who Cares?, 1979 Credit: © Steven Caras, all rights reserved In the Hollywood film of Carousel, Jacques d’Amboise—hemmed in on both sides by lines of…
