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“The Ambivalence of Being in Glück’s ‘The Triumph of Achilles’” [by Caroline Malone]
Opening the box. Opening the book. Opening the self. What often initially emerges from opening is just what Pandora unwittingly released into the world: fear, ignorance, jealousy, and hatred. And just as often, agency…
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Kudos to Nobel Laureate Louise Glück
Kudos to the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Glück, a wonderful poet whose work has appeared in many editions of The Best American Poetry. She was the guest editor of…
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Two Poems by Aaron Fagan
King and Trumpet One night I was drunk at the Heartland,And, apparently, I spoke to Dan, the bartender,Because his roommate called the next night to say,“My roommate, Dan, was your bartender last night.I hope…
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Dispatch From A Distance – Roads And Seeds, A Trace [by Cara Benson]
“There is a rhetoric to walking.” – Michel de Certeau Most everyone I know right now is alternating between sheer terror over politics (I’ll leave it at that) and a desperate search for respite…
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Met Percent: Week Twenty-Four [by Alec Bernstein]
Nize Baby! Top: Épinette des Vosges, Amant Constant Lambert, late 19th c., not on view.Bottom: Film credits, The Third Man, 1949; Album Cover, Soothing Sounds for Baby, 1962. An épinettier (a player of the…
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“A War in Tawara” [by Paul Hoover]
A War in Tawara Add “A,”A nut for a jar of tuna,A Santa at NASA. Borrow or rob,Boston did not sob.But sad Eva saved a stub. Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is…
